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What brought the native of Guadeloupe to the summit of the fencing world was an unrelenting drive and competitive ferocity that early on earned her the sobriquet la Guepe--the Wasp. Flessel-Colovic latched onto fencing at age seven after seeing French legend Jean-Francois Lamour on television. She abandoned dance lessons for the local fencing club--and soon began a victorious ascent through local and regional ranks. The promising southpaw didn't leave home for Paris, and intensive training, until 1990, when--at 19, far from family, friends and acquaintances--she fought off loneliness by pouring all her attention...
ANTONIO TWISTELLI is a fine name for a comic-book villain (or a Sicilian porn star), but if Spawn comic-book creator Todd McFarlane knew using the Twistelli sobriquet would cost him millions, he probably would have gone with something else. Last week a St. Louis jury ordered McFarlane to pay $24.5 million to one TONY TWIST, 32, a former NHL enforcer for the St. Louis Blues, who sued McFarlane for using his name without permission. McFarlane, a sports nut who paid $2.7 million for Mark McGwire's record-breaking 1998 home-run ball, waffled in his testimony about...
Against the odds, Dillon, 56, still exhibits much of the stamina that earned her the sobriquet Energizer Bunny as she arranges author visits, runs writing contests and helps kids find books they will like. But since June 1998, she has had to give up the greatest joy of her job--reading aloud to children--because ALS has damaged the neurons that control speaking, chewing and swallowing. Read-alouds are now handled by volunteers. Eating will soon have to be handled through a feeding tube...
...might he have gone? There has always been a tendency to see John F. Kennedy Jr. as John-John, the sobriquet the press bestowed on him when he was a little boy in the White House. Those bewitched by the John-John idea saw the grown man as a frivolous young fellow floating carelessly on the pleasures of life. In fact, J.F.K. Jr. detested the nickname and was not a man fulfilled by pleasure-floating. But he cherished his privacy and disdained defensive self-publicity...
...successful rookie season confirmed and enhanced the DiMaggio mystique. The next year, a radio broadcaster called him "the Yankee Clipper," a tribute to the way he sailed so majestically while pursuing fly balls across the green expanses of center field. His batting skill won him the sobriquet "Joltin' Joe." Meanwhile, the young man from Fisherman's Wharf was acquiring a Manhattan polish. He took up tailored suits and the high life at Toots Shor's nightclub, where the habitues treated him like a god who had inexplicably deigned to join their mortal company. He dated beautiful women, including actress Dorothy...