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...came as a stunning surprise to the approximately 25,000 fans in New Orleans' Superdome-and especially to Leonard-when Duran simply quit fighting 2 min. 44 sec. into the eighth round of their 15-round match. Duran first waved a dismissive fist at Leonard, then turned away. Leonard, thinking the gesture a taunt from the proud Panamanian who had sneered at him in contempt throughout the early rounds, closed in with a flurry of punches. Duran turned his back to the blows. Referee Octavio Meyron separated the fighters, then waved them in to fight again. Once more, Duran...
...into heavy traffic, problems of incompatibility arise. The circulatory system of the metropolitan U.S. is designed for cars and trucks, with pedestrians granted their margin on the sidewalks. In the culture of freeway or gridlock, the bicycle is a fragile but aggressive intruder. Today around the nation the shaken fist and flourished finger are exchanged between bikers and cabbies and bus drivers and commuting motorists-and, above all, pedestrians who chance to step in the path of a kamikaze ten-speed scorching silently up on the blind side. Bicycles, those sweet chariots of the old Consciousness III, now flourishing under...
...beginning of the second quarter, the Harvard offense began to move the ball for the fist time when a series of penalties pushed them back to their own 20 where the Crimson faced a first...
...through intimate confessions and tiny confrontations that only hint at the inner explosions. The audience should be close enough to see its reflection in the water of their eyes, or--if that is too sentimental for you--to feel as a hurricane the very gentle breeze of a clenched fist being relaxed...
...have written them three letters," Rodriguez says, clenching his fist nervously. "But I've received no answers and I wonder if my letters reached them...