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Rocky is a meat-and-potatoes exemplar of the American dream, a working stiffs contender who battles for his dignity against odds that seem overwhelming. Rocky III, premiering just two weeks ahead of the Cooney-Holmes championship match, extends a fresh set of sweat-stained victories to Rocky's loyal fans...
...paints with a more expressive, delicate brush. His art is philosophical and impressionistic, elegant and in some ways more moving. Where Butterfield deals mostly with urban China, Bernstein attempts to plumb the interior hinterland, the very heart of China. Together, these complementary volumes reveal the China of dust and sweat-the China of experience rather than imagination. They create a portrait of a society caught between two worlds one dead and the other powerless to be born...
...Klingensmith's junior year at Woodrow Wilson H.S.--a preacher from England arrived at the United Methodist Temple, and began to preach "marvelous fiery sermons," drawing big crowds on three consecutive nights. Each evening, while the sweat cooled on his brow, the minister held question-and-answer sessions with the congregation. "I would go and just sit," Klingensmith remembers. "As I was walking out of church one night the preacher accosted me, and told me he was God's messenger to me and that I was going to be a minister. I said, 'Well, what if I don't want...
LATE MAY an unfamiliar but not altogether surprising tableau two sophomores a guy and a girl lean against the wall in the entry to the Dunster dining hall reading aloud to each other from a glossy magazine with partially naked men on both covers. He reads "Sweat Kevin was the hairiest fifteen-year-old I ever saw" Laughter comes from passersby as well as from the girl. The scene--Harvard students taunting homosexuals--was unusual for only one reason the particular publication a gay arts magazine called Lavender Portfolio had never before appeared...
...everything you have learned and practiced over and over again until you had nightmares about it. There is no time to think, no time for anything. A split second freezes until you pull out and up into the high blue. When you land you are drenched with sweat like you've been in a shower. Your legs won't stop shaking...