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...against Spinks, who got $320,000?and even Ali could not spend all that. Two divorces, bad investments, taxes, profligate generosity and a large, leeching entourage have made tens of millions vanish, but he has an estimated $2 million in cash and real estate. He has no need to stagger through humiliating defeats, as did Joe Louis, trading on memory and affection in order to survive...
...book. Granted, the "Irishmen" found therein speak largely in some strange tongue found only in that mysterious land that produces moronic commercials for Irish Spring deodorant soap. And granted, the reader sometimes finds it difficult to believe that Reid's characters can daily consume enough Irish whiskey to stagger a water buffalo, yet retain enough brain cells to run around breaking each other's kneecaps with undiminished fervor. But trivialities and stereotypes aside, Reid still manages to entertain: his federal agents and seductresses, while quite familiar, are still endearing. And his friendly collection of priests--even though they...
...Quakers stagger into Watson Rink with an 0-2 record in the ECAC and are 2-3 overall. ECAC losses for Penn were at Yale 4-3 on November 18 and against Boston College 7-6 two days later...
...That stagger the mind...
...come on; the two run, frightened. Then, left to the clothesline again, they show off for one another, primping like a tom and pussycat. There's only a pink-lit romantic interlude, then gunshots, and both fall to the ground, just as they had when teasing one another. They stagger back to the clothesline to end. The piece is a mixture of pop and satire that 1966, the year "Headquarters" was composed, would have called "outrageous." Parodying it, a friend cocked her head over both shoulders, quipping, "I mean, is it for real...