Word: corliss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...belt to Joe Frazier. Leon Gast's documentary details the next step in Ali's career: Act III of a great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire. "Ali's charisma makes the film," says TIME's Richard Corliss. He hectors in poetry: 'If you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned,/ Just wait till I kick Foreman?s behind.' Some reporters, like George Plimpton, suspected that Ali?s smiles camouflaged his fear of the big, punishing champ. The film's title is rueful, notes Corliss. "Ali proved...
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