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Brin-Jonathan Butler
Brin-Jonathan Butler
American Journalist
Born: 1979
Cuba Every First People World You
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Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Cowardice Fighter Everything Way Tyson Out Had He Clear Looked Gnawing His Accomplished Off Overshadowed Against Mike Mike Tyson Suddenly Nearly Ear Number
As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Cities Havana Color Primary Go Chest As Far As Far Treasure
In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Hope You Soul Solitude Light Old Mind Bitterness Before Revolution Corner State City Someone Havana Glimpse Names Known Provided Might Who Lived Streets
Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed. Brin-Jonathan Butler
World Country Else Despite Would Athlete Athletes See Stayed Cash General Small Winning Vast Vast Majority Had Almost Tickets Majority Cuban Boxers Leave Were Impoverished Lottery Effectively Where Want Anyone Anywhere Anywhere Else Ashore Skills Incentive Wash Why Elite
'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Travel Met Few Constant Havana Bothered Outsiders Cuban Island Years Question Very Asked Next Traveled Ever Eager Eleven
Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Savage Truth Insist Group Every Bit Telling Neither Telling The Truth Critics About Both Wrong Powerful Supporters Perhaps Most Equally Vexing Moving Warn Aspect
When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Government Poet First Trial Responsible Castro Attempt He Put Dropped Name Insurrection His Intellectually Asked Who
Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Great Champion Country Every Air Outdoor Through Open Cuba Boxing Passed Forged Produced Oldest
In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Reward Half Ali Despite Ring Physical Mental Facing Boundaries Involved Documentary Testing Subtitles Required Fighters Speaking English Toll Lives Nearly Speech
Where the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren't waiting around to find out. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Waiting Will Changing Out Bay Find Invasion Tourist Failed Cuba Cuban Pigs Around Island Answer Undoubtedly Forever Where Succeed Next Landscape Many
My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Decision Revolution Relations Paradoxes Economic Remaining Castro Through Shaped Split Between Since Documentary Forced Cuba Cuban Boxers Cultural America Them Lens Choose Elite
I've been going to Cuba since the Elian Gonzalez affair. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Since Cuba Affair Been Going
Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money. Brin-Jonathan Butler
War Fight Money Values Something More Castro Boxers Always Demonstrate Than American Against Used American Values Symbolic
I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I've ever visited into the historical person I'd have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Every Cigarette Meet Visited City Habit Dirty Share Most Most Wanted Historical Person Wanted Little Ever
Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion. Brin-Jonathan Butler
You Enemies Negative Sides Record Both Both Sides Castro Also Track Track Record Cuba Makes Opinion His Anything Much Pawn Miles Exploring Exposing Away Nuance
In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Life Art Day Mistake Enemy Matter Stage Spies Minor Something Crossing Trivial Potentially Through Take Wrong Performance Another Another Day How His Lines Reflecting Goes Any Film Actor Her Second Fatal
I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Art Happy Matter Argument Beauty Indeed Disturbing Brutal Ritual Like Most Witnessed How Tragedies Art Form Endings Form Created Ever Defend
With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Learning People Met Heroic Side Complexity Kind Able Some About Cuba Narrative Contradictions Offer Hugely Official Just Different Them Really Fulfilling Richness Who Figures Many Fascinating Unique Found
In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Depression War You Every Way States Carried Seemed Through Major Along Boxer Boxers Narrative America Going Represent Just Century Vietnam Vietnam War Who Event United United States Slavery
When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Me Women Champion World Walk Made Rest First Style Sit Fighting Bench Distinct He Smiled Cuban Boxing Asked Coach Watch Olympic
At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Champion World Three First Cowardice Our Way Defined Tyson Point He House Became Leave Years Same Afraid Heavyweight Heavyweight Champion While Little Us Mike Certain Mike Tyson Certain Point Trauma Differently Thing Violence
On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of work. It took him just over 14 seconds to pull in more money than Michael Jordan, in his prime, made for an entire season of work that year. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Work Money Made Year Took Seconds Tyson Entire More Excess Jordan Prime Over Him Dollars His Michael June Michael Jordan Than Just Mike Mike Tyson Season Million Million Dollars Pull
Weddings have always spooked me. Brin-Jonathan Butler
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