Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look at a king, then a kid can look up to a queen, particularly if the kid is Ricky Schroder, 9. Properly togged in midget tuxedo, the star of The Champ met Queen Elizabeth II at the film's London premiere. Whether, when the lights went down, the Queen sobbed like others who have seen Ricky on-screen remained a royal secret...
Rocky II is the most solemn example of self-deification by a movie star since Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born. Though ostensibly the story of Rocky's marriage to mousy Adrian (Talia Shire) and his rematch with World Heavyweight Champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the film is not overly concerned with matters of romance or pugilism. The pivotal scenes all illustrate, in picture-book fashion, the hero's saintliness. We learn that Rocky loves animals: "I love animals," he announces early on, and then proceeds to devote a sizable amount of screen time...
...still claim to be the greatest, but West German boxing fans thought he looked more like the weightiest. Muhammad Ali, on a 20-day, seven-city European tour, was so flabby that he wore a T shirt during his exhibition bouts. The champ, now 37, claimed to be "at the most" only 22 Ibs. over his fighting trim of 220 Ibs., but others reckoned him 50 Ibs. above par. In Essen, a crowd of 2,500, who had paid up to $131 a ticket, watched dumbfounded as West German Boxer George Butzbach put the puffing champ on the ropes with...
...exactly four seconds, time enough to walk past a couch and out of the picture. She only emotes during an off-camera stethoscopy by the show's heartthrob, Dr. Chuck Tyler (Richard Van Vleet). "They probably didn't know I spoke English," grumbled the 1978 Wimbledon champ...
...Crimson football team typified Harvard sports in '78-'79: sweet hopes, but sour results. The gridders toppled eventual Ivy champ Dartmouth and Penn, but fell by a single point in an excruciating loss to Brown. Cornell slopped past them on a muddy field. And in the cruelest finish, despite having the ball on Princeton's five yard line with 28 seconds left, the offense stumbled and fumbled, and the game ended in a 24-24 deadlock...