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...actual fights, roars. Apollo Creed, who has sent flowers to the mayor's wife, and comes out through the aisles dressed as George Washington in an extravagant Crossing the Delaware parade, means business in this fight, but he does not know that Rocky means business too. Round after fifteen rounds, Rocky stays up, going for the champ's weakened right side. "He doesn't know it's a show; he thinks it's a goddamn fight," Creed's trainer panics. But it is precisely because the championship has become the symbol of Rocky's struggle to show that...
...middle of Connecticut, New Haven, Bridgeport, the Bronx. Northern Connecticut is the prettiest part; the Connecticut coast is old and industrial. Outside of New York City you pass what must be the world's biggest cemetery and a White Castle where they sell silver-dollar-size hamburgers for fifteen cents each. The traffic is bad and the view uninspiring on the George Washington Bridge, and I wouldn't give you much for Northern New Jersey, which smells bad. The only things about the Jersey Turnpike that are worthwhile, in fact, are that it has a truck lane...
...collection of photographs and eclectic writings on the choreographer, attempts to get at Cunningham's elusive spirit. Yet the pages of photographs detailing Cunningham's features reveal no more than Klosty's first blurred picture, nor do the accompanying pieces penned by members of Cunningham's company. Almost all fifteen contributors cut short their reflections with the observation that Cunningham is a very private and inscrutable human being...
...history of the arts as was Bloomsbury or Gertrude Stein's "charmed circle." After the second World War, the arts in New York took on a vitality and strength which Cunningham and his followers helped to create. And it is with this realization that a few of the fifteen delve into the complexities of the man and the myth, and succeed in cutting sharp reliefs of Cunningham. Others offer only a few sentences and warm sentiments...
Then in an instant, everything changed. Over the Belknap's loudspeaker crackled a call given only if the ship is in peril or coming under attack: "Captain to the bridge!" Gangways aboard the Belknap filled with jostling men racing to their stations. Fifteen long seconds passed while the men tensed against the unknown. Then a heavy shock passed through the cruiser, followed by a long, rumbling shudder that felt like an earthquake. Up above, the Kennedy's angled landing deck was smashing through the superstructure of the Belknap like a battering ram. The impact crushed the ship...