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Gwin said only five or six women will spar thisyear for the club, which has a core of about 20people and a full roster...
ROOM FOR TWO (ABC, debuting March 24, 9:30 p.m. EST). Linda Lavin and Patricia Heaton spar with panache as a widowed mother and her TV-producer daughter. Nothing new, but sitcoms far worse than this have spent years in the Nielsen...
...exercises and the rope-jumping, I learned discipline, intensity and grace. From watching other boxers, men and women, punch, do fancy footwork, exercise and jump rope better than I can, I learned humility. From watching the accomplished boxers don headgears, put on jock straps over their shorts and spar, I set goals. And from seeing Tommy do crazy exercises (he can rock back and forth on his stomach! His stomach!) and watching him run all over the MAC for three hours screaming, "Now give 'em a hook! Yah! Yah! You're loose like ashes! Yah!"--I found inspiration...
...spite of the message, the show remains lighthearted. Jeanne Simpson's phenomenal choreography, especially in the scene parodying "Singin' in the Rain," helps to sustain the playful tone. The male and female chorus members are delightful, as they spar, tango and symbolically sharpen knives at the dinner table. Although the phallic use of umbrellas is carried slightly too far, by the end of the show the audience does view the battle of the sexes as a timeless dance...
...shopping spree had actually started months earlier. East Germans moved beyond the oranges and bananas, so popular when the Wall first came down, to consumer electronics and cars. Everywhere, new brand names began to beckon: Panasonic, Miele, Zanussi. Magdeburg became Marlboro country. The West German chain Spar opened a supermarket 40 km east of the border and stocked it with Western goods. East Berlin got its Benetton...