Word: bouting
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...this sounds like daytime TV soap opera, the play is perilously close to it-an unsettling kind of comic tearjerker. The various relationships are scarcely credible. It is impossible to believe that anyone as self-centered as the Von Furstenberg character could have nursed Evy through drinking bout after drinking bout, as she claims to have done. Maureen Stapleton gives a high-strung, neurotically personal performance, but we can never relate the woman onstage with the poster on the wall that says she once sang in Carnegie Hall. The Evy before us might be a suburban housewife in a severe...
...time last week's bout began, it was clear that Ali had never met a man quite like Bonavena−either outside the ring or in it. An unorthodox, wildly swinging club fighter. Bonavena is a granite block of a man who had never been knocked out while winning 46 of 54 fights. He is so crude he can make the classiest opponents look bad. Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier found out the hard way: in the process of winning two decisions from Oscar, the champ was flattened twice and had to suffer through 25 punishing rounds...
...fight night last week, a capacity crowd of 19,417 jammed Madison Square Garden and paid $615,401−the largest gate ever recorded for a nontitle bout. Ali, who forsook his limousine for the subway so he could accompany the "little people" to the fight, turned out in red trunks and white shoes with dangling red tassels ("Bulls don't like red," he explained). Like a matador, he toyed with Bonavena through the early rounds, circling his lumbering opponent and stabbing him with jolting lefts. Oscar, a 6-to-1 underdog, kept wading in, pounding away...
...Great White Hope is severely divided, but many of the tensions the black actors manage to convey are true. At certain points-particularly when the splendid Moses Gunn, as an anachronistic black nationalist street preacher, accosts James Earl Jones after his character's return from a championship bout-the cast suggests the immense possibilities the story of the first Negro heavyweight champion could have held for artists who understood the period, its people, and the implications of the racial theme...
Henson easily decisioned his two opponents before going into the William and Mary bout. In probably the most crucial of the tournament. Henson out-wrestled his 134-pound foe but the Indian's wrestler held on for a 2-2 draw, knowing a tie would mean a team victory for William and Mary...