Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OVERSEERS Committee on Governance comes out with a sequel to its best-selling broadside, Harvard and Money. Called Son of Harvard and Money, it is soon to be a major Paramount motion picture starring Anthony Quinn as John Dunlop and Ali McGraw as Mary I. Bunting, the woman whose college Quinn saves by paying off the mortgage seconds before the creditors start moving the furniture out of Currier House. George Bennett sings the Henry Mancini theme song, "Every Tub on its Own Bottom." Below is a shot from the climactic final scene in which ground is broken for a cement...
Crunching Hook. Aware that he was way ahead on points, Ali coasted through the late rounds until a few of the fans began booing and filing out of the Garden. They should have stayed. In the final round, Ali caught Oscar with a crunching left hook to the jaw that sent the Argentine to the canvas. Bonavena struggled up at the count of eight, and Ali decked him again. At that point, Bonavena's corner tossed in the towel. No one saw it, and Oscar wobbled to his feet to be dropped again by an Ali flurry. The three...
Frazier, naturally, disagreed. "Clay made some mistakes that he'd better not make against me or it'll be hello, look out, goodbye." Ali summed it up another way: "They wanted to see if I could go the distance, and I went the distance. They wanted to see if I could take a punch, and I took more punches than I have in all my other fights. They wanted to see if I could punch, and I proved it by stopping a man who'd never been stopped...
Diagnosis: Love Story. There's a lot of it going around. Nearly 418,000 hardcover copies, for one thing. Plus 4,350,000 copies of a 95? version−the largest paperback first edition in history.* Plus the film, wrapped in glittering Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, just in time for holiday giving...
...further that Ali MacGraw promises to become the closest thing to a movie star of the '40s. She calls her lover/husband "Preppie" about 900 times too often; she sometimes seems case-hardened enough to scratch a diamond. But she is genuinely touching when she wishes aloud that her name was Wendy Wasp. And she is in a part as actor-proof as Camille. When a Radcliffe girl chooses to die onscreen, the Academy Awards can be heard softly rustling like Kleenexes in the background...