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...season sounds incredible [March 29]. Cop turned priest? How about featuring a bulldozer operator turned brain surgeon, a Sumo wrestler who moonlights as a ballet dancer or a defensive lineman who embroiders baby clothes to pay for a hamburger franchise...
...action outside. Very little went according to plan-certainly not Ali's plan, which called for a sixth-round knockout of Frazier. At the opening bell, Joe, the most fearsome body puncher around, went immediately-and wildly-for Ali's head. Ali, the celebrated stick-and-run dancer, very often stood flatfooted and, in what proved to be his ultimate undoing, tried trading hook for jolting hook. In the early going, Ali's long, rapid-fire jabs and lightning combinations kept the ever-charging Frazier at bay. Then, in an attempt to kill time and possibly psych...
...several sequences the Groove Tube camera plays cleverly with fingers that walk around like the Yellow Pages fingers; it follows them with close-up as they mimic perfectly the actions of a man meeting a woman on a stroll, in one sequence, and in another, they imitate a ballet dancer roaming over hills. In both sequences it's an interesting idea that is executed well-but Groove Tube's leering humor makes the first sequence depend on the appearance of a thumb between one pair of finger-legs and upon the inevitable seduction, while in the other sequence the cleverness...
...fatter and sloppier by the second and wish you were hiding in your favorite chair in Ticknor Library or in a bathroom at Holyoke Center or at the Graduate Center even, really, anywhere, but here, on the slippery, basketball court surface of the Radcliffe Gym, pretending you're a dancer...
...avoids being photographed whenever he can, and once gave a television interview with his back to the camera. A picture would show a man of 62, an ascetic face with fine bones and high forehead. He rarely talks of his personal life (he divorced his first wife, a Balinese dancer, and married a photographer last year). But he is willing to allow glimpses of his mind: "My relation to my camera is a combination of the psychiatrist's couch, a machine gun and a warm kiss...