Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lightweight in his prime, and as champion for nearly seven years he batted out 135-lb. contenders with a feral joy. But by 1979 the little Panamanian monster had eaten his way up to the welterweights (147), none of whom fell apart when he hit them, least of all Sugar Ray Leonard. Pulling something unknowable out of himself, Duran defeated Leonard in 1980, but leaving it there five months later, he quit against Leonard in disgrace. "No más" became the most notorious phrase in any language. Roberto lost two subsequent fights, but then knocked out former Welterweight Champion...
...fight came 15 days short of three years since the 32-year-old Duran stunned the sports world by saying "No mas" and quitting in the eighth round to lose the World Boxing Council welterweight title back to Sugar Ray Leonard, who was at ringside Thursday night. There was no quit in Duran this time...
...with sinking disappointment that I eyed the latest arrival along Mt. Auburn St., Gelateria Giuseppe. Translated that means sugar, and butterfat and crunch wafer cones--is this beginning to sound familiar? At my count, that brings to nine the number of ice cream emporiums a cone's throw from the Harvard T stop. What are they bringing into a world already complicated by oatmeal cookie vs. pina colada...
...Square begins to flirt in earnest with chi-chi consumerism. I hear there's still an army surplus store at Central Square where, coincidentally, you can also find the proletariat fast food Cambridge opposes. At least at McDonald's two dollars can buy you dinner, not just a sugar rush...
...Americans who sit through the 200-minute thriller will either regain their excitement for Glenn the great American, or discover it for the first time. With most of author Tom Wolfe's bitter ironies squeezed out of the screenplay, viewers get an image coated with almost as much sugar as the Life original account of Glenn's 1962 earth orbit...