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Although oddsmakers had installed Frazier as a 3-1 favorite, there were more than the usual number of prefight imponderables. The line on Foreman was that he was untested. True, he had won 37 straight fights, 34 by knockouts, but his opponents were the most graceless gang of pugs this side of a waterfront brawl. He was undeniably a heavy hitter, but his attack seemed so lacking in finesse that he was sometimes booed in victory. He outweighed Frazier 217½ to 214 Ibs., had an advantage of 3½ in. in height and 5 in. in reach...
...Cowens is, in fact, a David among the 7-ft. Goliaths he goes against in the N.B.A. Graceless but gutsy, he compensates for those inches with his extraordinary spring and a rebounding style that is all flying elbows and knees. "When he goes up in the air," says Celtic Coach Tom Heinsohn, "he takes up an incredible amount of space"-about as much as Bill Russell used to occupy...
...break. For every pure and major act of creation, like Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building (1958), there have been a hundred ripoffs: bland, scaleless crates with their $50 per sq. ft. marble foyers and 100 Sheetrock offices, their eggbox planning, insipid detail and graceless proportions. The International Style expended itself in these shallows, not in its masterpieces. But what is the alternative? Not the culture of Vegas casinos and duck-shaped roadhouses beloved of Pop architectural theorists like Reyner Banham and Robert Venturi; trash may be language, but it remains trash. The desire...
...seems a bit graceless to complain at this stage (his 41st year, his 19th book) about a writer as gifted and giving as John Updike. He has produced a body of writing whose size and consistent high quality are unapproached by the work of any American writer near his age, except Norman Mailer. It is hard to imagine how John Updike could have managed the business of being John Updike any more faithfully...
There are other reasons as well. He is, by all accounts, a moral man. And it is perhaps for this reason that he has proved so inept a politician recently. Only a moral man could tell such halfhearted and graceless lies, or be so club-footed in political maneuvering. By comparison, the professional liars of the Nixon administration seem like politicians of great sophistication and subtlety, which of course, they are not. No administration in recent memory has, for example, so bungled its relations with Congress as the Nixon crew...