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...novel, and God knows there are any number of ways to pick it apart. Lethem has adopted a furiously literary, poetic style that would look overwrought in the pages of an undergraduate literary magazine, and he gambles on a risky element of magical realism: the boys discover a magic ring that intermittently (it's capricious) gives them superpowers. But Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings to it a story worth telling: two brave boys whom an entire city couldn't tear apart...
...boxing ring, five seconds can be an eternity, as Alex "the Slugger" Wade learned when Vince "Dynamite" Dickson landed a punch square in his face at the beginning of the second round. Blood trickled from Wade's mouth, and he swayed from side to side. The crowd of 800 at London's York Hall - the spiritual home of British boxing - held its breath. But Wade returned with a flurry of punches, and finished with his pride intact. Despite his tough-guy nickname, Wade, a 37-year-old father of two, is not a professional boxer - he's a lawyer...
...sport is also starting in Singapore, where the U2 Can gym - a converted chicken shed - recently bought a boxing ring and has begun to offer serious training. Among the instructors: an ex-head boxing coach for the Singapore Army. The Real Fight Club in London is beginning to attract women. "I get a real buzz out of making my films, but that's a slow burn," says Ann Parisio, a documentary filmmaker who boxed in the first women's fight in London in June. "Boxing is so physical; so immediate. It's such a rush." It's also slightly watered...
...collar boxing is fairly innocent: you're not going to get badly hurt because the other guy's probably as incompetent as you." Equally important, the level of Rocky fantasy fulfillment is high: the ceremonial weigh-ins. The bucket to spit in. The theme song when you enter the ring. The nicknames. (Where else could a middle-aged white guy be called "Baby-Faced Assassin"?) The sport has become ubiquitous enough that it's reached the agony-aunt columns. In June a woman wrote in to the Daily Star newspaper's "Just Jane," terrified her banker boyfriend was going...
...Cafe Laumer Try the famous Frankfurter Kranz, a ring-shaped butter-cream gâteau garnished with candied cherries and chopped caramelized nuts at Café Laumer at 67, Bockenheimer Landstrasse, the favorite haunt of philosopher-sociologist Theodor Adorno. www.cafe-laumer.de...