Word: manning
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...video, pencil neck. And you can tell those leotarded WWF sissies that the Wild Man from the Desert Sand is coming after them...
...man is an artist, but as he nears 40, his chances of breaking into the World Wrestling Federation are dwindling. "It'd hurt if it doesn't happen, but you can't think that way," Jones says, as another student's foot slams through the gym's low ceiling on an errant flip. "Making it takes discipline, desire and dedication," he adds. Then he goes outside, lights a Camel and coughs up what sounds like part of a lung...
Hard Knocks is one of about a dozen U.S. schools that teach TV-style wrestling. Its enrollment, after seven years, has reached 75, as wrestling's popularity soars. Students pay $25 for each three-hour lesson in such moves as fake eye gouging and rubber banding a man's neck in the ropes...
Jones, who lives in the high desert northeast of town, goes into that closet a mild-mannered secretary and comes out Krazy K.C., Wild Man from the Desert Sand, with a ponytail, Gestapo boots, combat fatigues and Harley suspenders. And why this particular getup? "You go with what you know," he says...
...they've been chosen. Last Friday night, Dale Masel, 28, an industrial-engineering professor at Ohio University, got the call. Although he watches the show regularly, he hesitates when asked if he likes it. "Umm. I'm a much bigger fan today," he says. As is John Carpenter, the man who won Millionaire's million dollars and has been doing publicity spots ever since, hoping to make a career out of his moment. "The money itself hasn't changed my life," he says. "But being known is a big change. If people asked my friends if they knew me, they...