Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French letters. She is finishing up her ninth novel, which she describes as "not a love story. It's about an obsession, and based partly in the U.S." Sagan is an ailing 38. Her life has been scarred with drama: two divorces, a near-fatal auto accident, a bout with habitual gambling. Dividing her time between a Paris apartment and a Normandy house, Sagan is still planning, as she announced last year, to live in Ireland, at least for half the year. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Irish Republic exempts writers from income taxes...
...FIGHTERS concerns the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier bout in March 1971 and shows every moment of every round, recorded by a battery of cameras stationed all over Madison Square Garden. With only this fight footage, meticulously edited, Director William Greaves would have had a fine sports film. What lifts The Fighters out of the special-interest category is the first hour of documentary on the preparations for the match. The fighters, the promoters, the managers, the hangers-on, all speak a kind of spiked Odets chatter that makes the movie look and sound like...
Lindner had known about the match a week in advance, and did some preparing for his bout. "I talked to Gardner Malloy, a tennis champion from some years back, and I watched Ashe when he was on television last week in Philadelphia," Lindner said...
...Bout with Mono...
...good summer after coming off a bout with mononucleosis. I contracted the sickness after playing first singles for the initial five matches of the season," he said. "It gave me a lot of problems during the last season but now I am fully recovered...