Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stallone has a certain power, he is certainly not the subtlest actor to crawl out from under Marlon's overcoat. But the picture goes most wrong in the conceit it employs to lift Rocky out of the clubs and into the big arena for his title challenge. An Ali-like champion (Carl Weathers) blows into town for a championship bout and must find a replacement for the suddenly injured contender. Rocky asks the audience to believe that the champ reaches down past all the ranked boxers and all the up-and-coming kids to give this stale...
...danced with comic talent and lots of energy, but their characters had the depth of colorforms. Laura Jean Esserman as Gertie Cummings read every line as though she were doing an opera without music. Her laugh haunted me through three nights of horrifying dreams. Richard Rosomoff's nut-colored Ali Hakim was very, very funny. It's hard to figure why the Hakim song, "It's a Scandal, It's an Outrage...
Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali must be taking retirement lessons from Frank Sinatra. Less than two months after quitting once again, Ali announced plans for a few more lucrative turns around the ring. Taking a break between rounds of his current project, a movie biography titled The Greatest, Ali engaged in some patented prefight name-calling with Heavyweight Challenger George Foreman. George said he was ready for Muhammad, but the champ wants a match with unbeaten Duane Bobick first. "I am the king of boxing," said Ali. "I do what I like when I like...
...tracked down the last few pockets of the disease in isolated areas of Ethiopia. Then just as they were ready to announce the end of smallpox, they learned of several new cases among nomads in neighboring Somalia. The most recent victim is a 20-year-old woman named Maryam Ali Gureh, who is now recovering under the watchful eye of local WHO officials. If she can be kept from having any contact with unvaccinated people, she may go down in history as the world's last smallpox case...
...Muhammad Ali will not show up to priouette on the Watson Rink ice. Instead, championship skaters will cavort up and down the frozen stuff. Some the world's best figure skaters will be at the show, including Kent Wiegle and Judy Genevese, the current United States Silver Dance Medalists...