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...mountainous Takamiyama came to the Lady. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on a visit to Asia, was ready to tussle with Japanese officials over matters of state. The Tetsu no Onna (Iron Lady) was not, however, prepared to lock arms with Japan's heftiest Sumo wrestler, Takamiyama, whose name means Mountain of the Lofty View. The 6-ft. 4-in., 448-lb. colossus, born Jesse Kahaulua in Hawaii and now a naturalized Japanese citizen, disarmed Mrs. Thatcher by cuddling her hand in his great paw. "Your hands are so soft," he said, "and your eyes are just like...
...Garp, the problem is that ironies both bitter and brutal keep gusting up out of nowhere and knocking them down. Out of this basic and by no means original insight, Irving crafted a bestseller and something more. His hero, T.S. Garp, that wise and foolish, gentle and fierce writer-wrestler has become a sort of postmodernist Everyman, and his often deadly adventures on the bleak bat lefields of the contemporary war between the sexes have given the book an almost mythic coloration for many readers...
When this quirky saga of writer-wrestler T.S. Garp first received attention in 1978, critics embraced the life-to-death story as a work which imaginatively blended modern-day issues such as rape and the threatened American family with startlingly fresh humor. But not long after the initially warm reception, some began to find the popular and violent images and story-lines in Garp a little less wonderful. While the book continued to sell rapidly, an inverse reaction occurred in literary circles. The jury went back into session on Irving and produced a revised verdict, charging him with excessive, gratuitous...
...very odd little South Pacific island. The men wear nests in their hair, where clever birds roost-"feathered superegos" who do the thinking for the hominoids when problems get knotty. On the head of King IT the 42nd perches the imperial vulture. His Majesty, built like a sumo wrestler, rides in a mobile throne on the back of a 300-year-old sea turtle, painted every color of the rainbow, which carries him at a 1-m.p.h. crawl...
After his team lost to Yale, Cornell, Coach Andy Noel decided to exploit the Crimson's technical mistake, bringing the matter to the attention of the Columbia athletic department. Rick Beller, Harvard's 126 lb. wrestler--who had known Noel previously--says he is "not surprised" by the coach's apparent ruthlessness: "It was in character for him," Beller said yesterday, after hearing the shocking news. He said the team feels it "deserved" the title--that the Crimson was the best team and proved...