Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little-guy stance, were it not for the unmistakable honesty of the self-doubts, fears, vacillations, and failures which he reveals in a detached and slightly bemused tone. Plimpton's little guy lives at a more enduring level than rich or poor. Plimpton trying to gain entrance to Ali's restricted quarters, chatting with Hemingway, or catching flak from Malcolm X, is always the moved one and never the mover. He lands where the buffets of fate and more vigorous personalities may send him, and we sympathize...
...equally at home wolfing down hot dogs on a ghetto street or dining on filet de boeuf Richelieu with Henry Ford II. An early supporter of Jimmy Carter, Young was rewarded when the President paid him a visit during the campaign. HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and Muhammad Ali also came into the state. Henry Ford II lent his assistance. Young's main opposition was concentrated in the largely white police force, where there is particular resentment against his policy of favoring blacks for city jobs and promotions...
...Seaver. His remark was à propos of his new portrait by Andy Warhol, who, of course, has also immortalized both soup cans and Monroe. Seaver's likeness, done in acrylic and silk screen on canvas, is part of Warhol's new series, which also includes Muhammad Ali, Dorothy Hamill, Chris Evert and Jack Nicklaus. Why Warhol's current interest in athletes? He has become a sports fan. Besides, he says, "sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were...
Young ``wuz robbed'' of a decision against Ali over a year ago. They said Ali was out of shape. Cheered wildly by the locals of San Juan, ``Yimee'' Young outpointed George Foreman last spring. Again it was called a fluke: Foreman has brains like Kojak has hair...
Young did not have to comment. Norton, the victorious boxer in the middle of the ring, and Ali, the greatest champion of all time, could have said it. One of them will occupy the throne for a while, but Jimmy Young is going to get that crown...