Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With this bout to be champ so emphasized, questions of vanity, ambition, and the paranoia of isolation take center stage. Suicide is the not-so-subtly hinted at shadow lurking around the corner. So self-hate, which is here one Hemingway hating another, is crucial. Some of the most ugly and malicious acts imaginable are acted out by Hemingways on Hemingways. And why do they hate each other. It's hard to fell, unless they've jealous of each other's success. Stardom seems to be the thenic here Hemingway could be a TV personality except for the few matador...
...week's end physicians recommended that Mrs. Perón limit her activities in order to speed up recovery from a bout of the flu. Some Argentines suspected, however, that the President's medical problems were more serious than her doctors would admit. Speaking to a crowd of 3,500 Perónist women on the day of López Rega's departure, she gripped the microphones until her knuckles whitened and ominously declared: "Do not forget General Perón, who gave his life in pursuit of national unity even as I am doing...
...belongs to Marvis Frazier, 14, Smokin' Joe's son and newest sparring partner. "I've been trying to keep him out of here for five or six years or more," says the ex-champ, who has been training at his Philadelphia gym for a Sept. 30 bout with Muhammad Ali. "But he keeps finding excuses to get down here and put gloves on." Marvis, a ninth-grader who stands an inch and a half taller than his father and has a longer reach, worries about his weak left hook. Still, he is considering a pro career...
Champion Muhammad Ali is steadily punching his way through assorted beefcakes to become the highest-paid athletic performer of all time. He received $2 million for his light workout with Joe Bugner and has been promised twice as much for his September bout with Joe Frazier. Heavyweight Norman Mailer's last big deal was a $1 million contract to produce 500,000 to 800,000 words, or roughly five books. After taxes and expenses, he notes, that is not much money for a man who bears the costs of five marriages and seven children...
Perhaps this is what makes The Fight, Mailer's account of last year's Ali-Foreman bout in Zaire, humid with a sense of obligation. Even though Ali beat the odds and regained his championship, it was not a truly good fight. For all his buildup as a killing machine, Foreman moped around the ring like a man bitten by a tsetse fly. Mailer's blow-by-blow description of the fight strains to create more excitement than a ringside radio announcer. "Making love to a brunette when she is wearing a blonde wig" is his punchy...