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...move in search of an opening. They punch wildly, sometimes hitting the opponent's face or body, more often hitting air and stumbling off balance. The crowd of young men leaning on their Chinese-made motorcycles doesn't seem to mind. Their whoops and jeers accompany every haymaker and uppercut thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punching Their Way Out of Poverty? | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...Uppercut, tel: (1-718) 851 0045, is entirely typical of the new Park Slope. Just seven months old, it retails samples and seconds from hard-to-find designers, including Illinois native Cynthia Rowley and Italian outerwear manufacturer Moncler. Down the block is Candice Beltran's equally new accessory boutique, Sö Charmed, tel: (1-718) 369 8302, selling jewelry that would cost three times more in Manhattan. You'll find the same kind of savings in street fashion too. Check out the menswear at Brooklyn Industries, tel: (1-718) 789 2764, and cult denim labels like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Park Life | 1/28/2006 | See Source »

...bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed "Restaurant Row" by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch cuisine and cool boutiques. Uppercut, tel: (1-718) 851 0045, is entirely typical of the new Park Slope. Just seven months old, it retails samples and seconds from hard-to-find designers, including Illinois native Cynthia Rowley and Italian outerwear Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Park Life | 1/28/2006 | See Source »

...122nd time we play Yale. We’re going for a victory.” As Grimm finished up his speech, a swaggering John Harvard and a helpless Yale bulldog performed an intricate fight sequence that ended with John Harvard flattening the bulldog with a vicious uppercut. Students also sang along as the Harvard Band played “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard” and watched as cheerleaders performed acrobatic stunts. “I’ve been here 12 years, we’ve never had anything like this,” Coach Tim Murphy...

Author: By Doris A. Hernandez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Rally for the Team, Bash Bulldogs | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...acting tough. In 2001's blockbuster romantic comedy My Sassy Girl, she outdrank and verbally abused her meek onscreen boyfriend, all (more or less) in the name of love. In person, you don't get many of the withering glares, emasculating insults?and certainly not the Tyson-like uppercut?that Jun displayed on screen. Instead, you meet someone who politely waits for you to order lunch. In real life, it turns out, Jun isn't that sassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Force to Reckon With | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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