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...authentic aversion to the subject and generally says nothing. The way black Promoter Don King and Holmes talk, Cooney is just the same traditional white emissary who has been sent against the black savage since James J. Jeffries hurried out of retirement in 1910 to try to wipe the grin off the face of Jack Johnson. Rocky Marciano, who retired undefeated the year Cooney was born, was the last white American to wear the heavyweight crown. When Swede Ingemar Johansson shook Floyd Patterson loose from the title momentarily in 1959, Ingemar had one wonderful year to enjoy...
...obviously sincere and painstaking response. "The majority of people who have any strong dislike for me don't know me. From the outside looking in, they see a fellow from New York City, relatively affluent, very aggressive. I come on very strong. But," he says with a very engaging grin, "my bark is much worse than my bite." Later, he comes back to the same theme. "I have a very strong personality. I come on very strong. I have lots of enthusiasm. I do lots of things that are fairly visible, and when I do them that can be offensive...
...heavily into anecdotes"). They loved it. Then Speakes invited them to brief the press once again. To a man, they showed their old skills in evasion and diversion. Asked if he had ever had to lie, Ron Ziegler, who was secretary for Richard Nixon, answered with an appropriate grin, "Never knowingly...
After the relay, the jubilant runners surrounded their mentor and hosted him upon their shoulders chanting, "McCurdy, McCurdy." The coach's grin soon faded once he realized that his charges were leading straight for the steeplecase water jump. After being dumped into the water, McCurdy led the squad in a victory lap as the chanting continued...
...these years on the road, Lind is no more bitter and no less funny than when he started, an impressive feat given the course of history in the meantime. His mind may swarm with hoofed and steaming demons like a phantasmagoric painting by Pieter Bruegel, but he can still grin at the bared fangs of his own beasts. He has not become a beast...