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...first contestants. Five-year-old Shawn Serface and five-year-old Dan Casarez are in their corners having their faces smeared with Vaseline to reduce the chance of cuts. Their hands are wrapped in gauze and placed inside huge (16 oz.) boxing gloves. Shawn tries to spit out the rubber mouthpiece. "I don't want it," he tells his cornerman-father, who shoves it back in. As the two boxers get their instructions from the referee, Dan interrupts with his own bit of advice. "No kicking," he blurts out to his opponent...
...rather slippery attempt by Co-Playwrights Lawrence and Lee to shift a characterization that belongs uniquely and unalterably to Oliver Wendell Holmes. The new appointee, Ruth Loomis (Jane Alexander), is a rabid conservative hatched in Orange County, Calif. Naturally, they get into verbal fencing matches but they duel with rubber foils and specious logic...
...mean, how bummed out is the guy who wanted to take time off until Harvard hockey got better, but decided not to so he wouldn't miss any of George's games? And what about the manic fan in section 14 with the orange hat and the rubber chicken, the one who always leaned over the glass to chew out the refs? What will...
...Model Gun Collectors Association (36,000 members), the National Police Agency is considering a ban on model guns too. The police are fed up, because holdup victims cannot tell the difference between a model pistol and the genuine article. If the ban succeeds, robbers may have to resort to rubber knives and bamboo bludgeons...
...high above the political fray. Once appointed by the Governor, they need face the voters only for a yes or no vote at the next gubernatorial election before serving a twelve-year term, and in the past that public endorsement has proved to be little more than a rubber stamp...