Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not that fifth Arab-Israeli war takes place depends much on the flexibility and political acumen of Premier Menachem Begin (see box), whose own strength of character and sense of purpose made Sadat's historic venture possible. It will long be remembered that Sadat said he would go to Jerusalem to seek peace. But it must not be forgotten that Menachem Begin said "Come ahead." Together the two leaders made their extraordinary compact: "No more...
...moment, Broadway is abuzz over another kind of Simonize job. After Simon dismissed the Pulitzer-and Tony-winning play The Shadow Box in scatological terms on a local television talk show, the League of New York Theaters and Producers voted to recommend excluding him from the opening-night press list. The action means merely that Simon, or rather New York, must now scrounge for theater tickets, a sticky business for important shows that are booked long in advance. Still, Simon claims he has not yet missed an opening...
...Plimpton persuaded Archie Moore, then light-heavyweight champion, to box with him, the results to be set down in a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article. Plimpton found a trainer named George Brown. "I had been introduced to him by Ernest Hemingway, who always spoke of him with highest regard-as a boxer who could have been a champion if he had been able to accept the idea that he was going to be hit once in a while...
Plimpton was rewarded with a bloody nose and a story. But an eight-minute fight cannot be spun out for more than a few chapters, and most of Shadow Box is more or less conventional, and excellent, sports reporting. The chapters on Muhammad Ali are delightful, and Ali is not easy to write about, as Wilfrid Sheed and Norman Mailer have amply proved...
...Shadow Box is filled with anecdota...