Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighter sat in semidarkness, talking in an urgent whisper. When you sit with Muhammad Ali, he talks in whispers. He knows that when the heavyweight champion speaks softly, you strain to hear...
Rays of late afternoon sunlight angled against an off-white wall. Ali, who wore black, had positioned himself in darkness...
...good works," he said. "I helped a Jewish nursing home. You know I go in the ghettos. Two, three days after this fight, I may be on the South Side of Chicago talking with people. What heavyweight champion before ever done that?" Ali stroked his brows, which are unmarked for all the punches crashed against them. "I gives a lot away. I got a mission. God, if there is a God, he's gonna judge me. That's when I die. And I'm gonna die. Sonny Liston. He died...
...Ali said. "You gonna die. Jimmy Cannon, he was once sitting right where you are, and he died. You ever think about that...
...driven cheerfully into the Catskill Mountains, the gefilte fish capital of the cosmos, to observe two black men readying themselves for a fight at Yankee Stadium. The Ali I remembered was brave, young and handsome, and as remote from death as spring. But now this man had turned contemplative and grave. He was telling me something with great subtlety. Muhammad Ali was dying as a fighter...