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Television, which now lights up more than 200,000 screens, is a perennial as sault on Gaelic puritanism. Ireland's own station competes with programs beamed from Britain that seem incredibly risque to Irish viewers; the BBC's uninhibited coverage of Christine Keeler's exploits has even jogged the stodgy, self-censoring Irish press into giving readers all the details. Many Irishmen, increasingly resentful of censorship, have taken to sampling censored books, films or plays by taking the 90-minute flight to London - where far more horrendous temptations abound...
...This Is Unbelievable." And that Cooper tried. Normally a slow starter, he rushed from his corner, nailed Clay with a flurry of whistling lefts that brought the blood rushing from yon Cassius' pretty nose. "This is unbelievable," a BBC announcer shouted into his ringside microphone. "Cooper is boxing magnificently." All through the first round and into the second, Cooper kept flicking lefts inside Clay's careless guard, keeping him off balance, forcing him to backpedal. The crowd howled. The BBC was ecstatic. "Oh, what a lovely sound for Henry Cooper here at Wembley. He shook Clay, and that...
...second round, Cassius finally decided to fight, rapped a neat right to Cooper's left eye. A tiny cut appeared-and the crowd quieted down. In the third round, blood began running into the Briton's eye, blinding him, spoiling his aim. "Nothing very serious," announced the BBC hopefully. But both Cooper and Clay knew better. A smile spread across Cassius' face. The fight was his. But why hurry...
...nearly closed, blood dribbling down his cheek, Cooper lurched around the ring-swinging blindly, charging his tormentor like a maddened bull. Clay was the contemptuous matador-casually eluding Cooper's rushes, sticking his chin out, daring Cooper to hit him. Then it happened. "Clay is down!" screamed the BBC announcer. "Cooper has downed him! Oh, a beautiful punch there!" The "beautiful punch" was a sucker left hook; its chances of landing must have been 1,000 to 1. But land it did, flush on Clay's jutting jaw. Eyes glazed, Clay tumbled backward onto the ropes. The referee...
Kennedy laughed and stayed with the show to the end. It was the first experimental half an hour of What's Going On Here?, a program of political and social satire syndicated by Metropolitan Broadcasting. What's Going On Here? has taken its inspiration from the BBC's That Was the Week That Was, a brash, barbed, and sophomoric hour of slapslush and clumsy wit that has become the talk of Great Britain this season...