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...Boss Tweed because it was devoid of acrimony and humorlessness. Johnson never mauled his opponents. For a period of rounds he would lay back, content with controlling the other fighter and enjoying himself. From time to time, he would challenge his opponent to take a shot at his unprotected chin and then smother the billow, accompanying the defensive maneuver with an offensive flurry of his own. A showman, as well as a master of ring psychology, Johnson converted a fight from a contest into a personal exhibition. He would defeat his opponents only after he had made them feel...
...quite. For behind his Brillo beard is not only a weak chin but a vague ethic. The killer beast refuses to let his mercenaries enjoy any of the village sports: rape, pillaging, torture. Instead, he insists on discipline and mollifies a local priest (Per Oscarsson), all because of the influence of a wandering intellectual (Omar Sharif). As for the atrocities of the period, they are conveyed in formal compositions that amount to decorations, not disasters. Plague-ridden corpses are artistically strewn on smooth fields; soldiers flash evil grins in cartoon style-one even ecstatically licks the blood off his knife...
From the very start, the whole fight seemed so wrong. Ali wasn't prancing, shuffling, dancing rings around his opponent. Instead, he stood still, leaned back on the ropes, occasionally snaring Frazier's shoulders with his arms or teasing Frazier's chin with his glove...
...think I can do a lot more for the community as a doctor than I can in any other way," said David C. Chin '71, who plans to enter Harvard Medical School next fall...
...role of George is the key characterization in Virginia Woolf, and McCarthy's George is, very fortunately, far and away the best performance of the production. Frank McCarthy knows how to use cigarettes and his double chin to dramatic advantage; he creates an aging man convincingly, a man who is as much the victim of his own realization of his failings as he is the victim of his wife's revilement of them. George is un-ambitious, a tenured associate professor in the history department, a tethered husband and impotent functionary of the college; Martha, the college president's daughter...