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...pundits anticipated, 1992 was unmistakably The Year of the Woman. Five women--all Democrats--won election to the Senate last night: Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer in California, Patty Murray in Washington, Carol Mosely Braun in Illinois and incumbent Barbara Mikulski in Maryland...
...ceremony was interrupted by three Harvardstudents who appeared on the library steps intheir boxer shorts. The men disrupted the rites byblowing out candles, pulling down their shorts,and singing the Canadian national anthem, "OCanada," during Ender's speech...
Well, what about Lynn Yeakel or Barbara Boxer, one keeps wanting to ask, running for the Senate at the "dangerous age" of 51 -- or any number of our year-of-the-woman stars? Are they in denial too? Women already spend much of their lives in service to biology -- bearing and raising children; so how sad to arrive, finally, at the empty nest, only to find that it's bubbling over with its own toxic hormonal brew...
...limited imagination that insinuating himself into New York's moribund boxing game looks like a step up to him. His half-baked idea is to revive club fighting, which once kept half a dozen small arenas in the city busy. To help promote the plan he recruits a retired boxer named Al Grossman (Jack Warden, in a canny, counterpunching performance). This brings him into conflict with Al's brother Boom Boom (Alan King), a man of deadly self-importance, who also happens to be kingpin of what's left of the fight racket...
...knowledge, that powerful awareness of the genetic link between Africa and its lost children was alloyed with a more complex emotion: a realization of all that was lost when our unwilling ancestors made their transatlantic voyage. Our centuries in America have transformed black Americans into a Western people. The boxer Muhammad Ali, after visiting Africa, joked that he was glad "my great granddaddy caught that ship." The point is that whether or not we rejoice in the fact, our ancestors did come to America, and not many of us can ever go completely home again...