Word: blowhard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thrilla in Manila more than made up for the routine prefight publicity. As expected, Blowhard Ali filled the tropical city with enough hot air to start a new front moving across Asia. He dubbed his opponent a punching bag and hinted at an early knockout. The act got out of control only when Wife Belinda flew into Manila and flew out less than twelve hours later, distressed by the publicity given Ali's companion, Model Veronica Porche. For his part, Joe Frazier had stayed in character, speaking briefly and bluntly. "Ali can't touch me," he said...
...tighten your belt, turn up your collar," the veteran hobo tells the kid, "and you can be emperor of the North Pole." The kid, called Cigaret (Keith Carradine), is a blowhard spoiling to be top bum in the territory. He keeps pestering "A No.1" (Lee Marvin) for some tutoring on the fine points of jumping trains and dodging conductors.A No. 1 tosses a few nuggets of road wisdom to his would-be protégé, but saves his energies and talents for his epic battle with the sadistic conductor Shack (Ernest Borgnine), toughest train man on the tracks...
Would someone please inform me why The Crimson seems to have it in for Franklin Ford. He apparently serves as The Crimson's whipping boy when careful and courageous analysis gets dropped in favor of glib and blowhard rhetoric...