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...successfully, to slow things down near the end of the round. The second round also belonged to Hagler, as he landed solid combinations to Minter's eyes and nose, which had been bloodied in the first stanza. Fearing the fight would be stopped on cuts, the champion abandoned his stand-up style and began to slug it out with Hagler. A mistake...
...Wilkie and Bradley were, in a sense, covering two different conventions. Wilkie's was the time-honored affair of party bosses in smoke-filled rooms, cutting behind-the-scenes deals. Bradley's was the modern, made-for-television extravaganza of briefly glimpsed public events and quickly forgotten stand-up interviews. Neither the Globe nor CBS gave -or claimed to give-a complete picture. The newspaper preferred analysis and backstage maneuvering to the podium play-by-play. As for TV's supposedly all-seeing eye, it focused on the exuberant demonstrations after Senator Kennedy's rousing Tuesday...
...weeks of his life are run-on reminders of his inferiority. No luck. No chance. And of course-as a connoisseur of the hairsbreadth art of stand-up comedy will tell you-no respect. These components of Rodney Dangerfield's fractured comic mask form one of the unlikeliest success stories around. Dangerfield was a has-been even before he was anyone at all. "I dropped out of show business once," he often confesses in his act. "But nobody noticed...
Cheech and Chong don't look like bums anymore. In fact, Cheech Martin and Tommy Chong have escaped the barrio forever and are flying high on two magical drugs: popularity and commercial success. As a stand-up comedy team, they had thousands of followers for their routines about ghetto life and the constant lust for all types of marijuana. In laconic style, the two based their humor on strange, burned-out characters whose off-the- wall repartee generated easy laughs. These characters often spoke in grunts, and halfsentences, peppering their dialogue with "yeah, man's" and "yeah, so you know...
...cocktail parties, singles bars and other stand-up affairs, be sure to circulate about the room. Prolonged standing in one place may not only be dull; it puts great pressure on the spine. Shifting the weight from one foot to the other also helps relieve the strain of standing in place. At a bar do what experienced patrons have long done: always keep a foot on the rail or a rung of the bar stool...