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...ceremony of the patriarchy, if you like. Gillette Blue Blades sponsored other ceremonies: prizefights on black-and-white television, the boxing-ring bell orchestrated into the jingle... "To LOOK sharp DING/ ev'ry time you shave!" I cherish a hazy recollection, the haze being snow on the television set, perhaps, and the bluish cigarette smoke layered above the ring - of Sugar Ray Robinson throwing the most beautiful punch ever thrown, a straight jab, pure lightning that sent his man into another dimension, as if used boxers and used blades alike would spin in black space forever...
...Famer and seven-time All-Star; in Wilmington, North Carolina. Stargell spent 21 seasons hitting cloud-scraping home runs and winning two World Series championships for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Former manager Chuck Tanner reflected, "When you had Willie Stargell on your team, it was like having a diamond ring on your finger...
...ranch two years ago, right after it was featured on a glossy Texas Farm & Ranch cover. Since then they have spent millions of dollars more to expand the house (to 8,600 sq. ft.) and the barn (which had six stalls but now has 28, with a covered riding ring). They have already put the ranch back on the market--for $7.5 million, raising a few eyebrows among the locals...
There is also something comforting about the one-ring, intimate setting of the BAC, where even the worse seats are still within 50 ft. of the action. Without driving the audience into sensory overload, the BAC manages to charm through its time-tested approach to circus performance, and it will be interesting to see how the trendier big tops will fare once their novelty disappears. The fact that there is no effort to either glorify or mollify the circus’s tackiness makes the BAC a perfectly dignified little show...
There is also quite a bit of audience interaction, although this is primarily the result of the intimacy of the BAC big top rather than a reliance on audience participation to fill gaps in the show. At several points throughout the evening the ring crew dashes around the audience frantically raising levers and pulling ropes to get the next act started—no machinery is used in the performances. Performers will also often play up to the children in ringside seats, and Act II begins with a cute exchange between Orville the Clown and a child selected from...