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...suppose Hearns showed a lot of heart in the fight. He was battered around the ring in the sixth and seventh rounds, and came out in the eighth circling steadily, firing his long left jab to keep Leonard off him. In the thirteenth he was knocked to the canvas for the first time in his career--not once, but twice. He got up both times, once extracting himself from the ropes. All this from a man who said before the fight that he had never even been stunned in his entire career. Hearns learned quickly...
...justice was done. But it would have been a better justice if big Tommy Hearns' right hand had landed on Leonard's chin in the thirteenth round, with Hearns' arms raised in the fourteenth while Leonard sagged in the ropes...
Early in the thirteenth, however, Leonard opened up. A solid right to the jaw rocked Hearns, who quickly retreated. Sensing the kill, Leonard closed in. A barrage of punches sent Hearns through the ropes for the first knockdown of his professional career. Leonard spent the rest of the round chasing Hearns, and another combination sent the Detroit fighter to the canvas with five seconds left in the stanza...
JOSIAH was more than a crafty businessman. He was the spiritual father of a special British enterprise--one that has survived the gain and loss of an empire. Piers, the portly sould who must continue the family work, is proud. He says, "Josiah was the thirteenth child in the fourth generation of potters. His great grandfather was the first Wedgwood potter. His own father died when he was only nine years old and he was apprenticed to his eldest brother from the age of nine to 21. He happened to be very ill during that period and was not considered...
...informed that the preview to follow was rated R. Uh oh. A dark screen. A thundering voice "On Friday the 13th, 1980, (Kathy Sue Whittaker?)'s 12 closest friends were brutally murdered. What made her think Friday the 13th, 1981, would be any different?" The title unfolds: "FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH--PART TWO." I felt like I was 20,000 leagues beneath the Charles. Not only does this movie have the gall to acclaim itself as a total rehash of an awful, misogynist film that was the epitome of cinema merde, but the trailer shows us every murder...