Word: tyson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aging sports idols. The American male wants to keep seeing athletes do what they once did best. In golf, the senior circuit earns more money than the entire women's tour. Former tennis aces draw big crowds in their own slots at the major tournaments. Boxing, aside from Mike Tyson's bum-of-the-month festival, is one big Over the Hill Gang. Last week's waltz between Sugar Ray Leonard, 33, and Roberto Duran, 38, was the top-grossing fight in history. Next month George Foreman, now bigger than Mount Rushmore and twice as old, will face perennial white...
...host, he has turned his guest couch into TV's liveliest melting pot. Rap groups get as much attention as Hollywood legends; George Hamilton or Glenn Close might find themselves rubbing elbows with one of the Jacksons -- Jesse or Bo. And when things get slow, Eddie Murphy or Mike Tyson could drop in unannounced. Man, this show is loose...
Obviously Szasz has never heard Pat Robertson explain how he "prayed" a hurricane away from South Florida. He has never spent time with members of the studio audience at the Morton Downey Jr. show. And Szasz probably was travelling abroad when Mike Tyson, after calling Robin Givens the "slime of the slime," announced he still loved...
...that is precisely why it cannot be easily legislated. Make romance a thing for lawyers, and callousness and shame turn into crime and punishment. Yet today we have girls suing their dates for standing them up, and star-crossed ex-lovers -- the former partners of William Hurt, Mike Tyson and Rock Hudson, to name but three -- counting the emotional cost in millions. Litigation means never having to say you're sorry...
...only noise that Foreman is eager for is the telephone, ringing with Tyson's call. "We keep on winning, and that phone will ring," assures Foreman's brother Roy, his manager. "One day Tyson'll have to come to us." Until that happens, the old slugger is content enough dreaming his dream. "Champeen of the world," he beams. "Champeen. Great stuff there...