Krause was a heavyweight punching bag for critics in Chicago and elsewhere these last five years, for instigating the Bulls' breakup (revisionist propaganda) and for supposedly striking out in his reconstruction attempt (ignorant prattle).
I BOUGHT two heavyweight plastic Costco shopping bags suitable for lugging boulders, and was careful to fill them with no more cleaning supplies and Kleenex products than could be hoisted home on the Lexington Avenue bus.
The bag industry has some heavyweights, but it's also shown repeatedly that strong upstarts can make a splash and carve out a niche for themselves.
A good bag has a strong zipper, heavyweight drawstrings and tightly stitched seams.
Then he pounded the heavy bag while his trainer, Willie Reddish, an old heavyweight, held it, and afterward he let Reddish slam the medicine ball into him — the same hard, painful routine of the Catskills workout, except that now he did more of everything.
Earnie Shavers said modern heavyweights "were not fit to carry Muhammad Ali's gym bag", on the occasion of his old rival's 70th birthday.
Standing right over there thumping a heavy bag is the imposing Lance Whitaker, a super-heavyweight from Granada Hills who stands 6 feet 8 on legs still sore from the long, long flight.
This was at a party for the 10th anniversary of Cigar Aficionado magazine, and he was clutching a bag of cigar samples as tightly as a heavyweight championship belt.
The album is pressed onto heavyweight 180g white vinyl and packaged in a bespoke antistatic bag.
Though it was its elegant, Hitchcock-style, monochrome herringbone tailoring – a sharp skirt suit and sensible bag, for example – which best exemplified the enduring appeal of this heavyweight label.
