Word: haunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stripped him of his heavyweight title because he had been convicted of draft evasion. Ali's prophecy was at least half right. Never more than a scene-stealing shout away from ringside, keeping in the headlines with a flurry of lectures and boasts, the champ-in-exile did indeed haunt the sport. He was a titleholder stripped of his rights?not by the fists of another fighter but by decree of a pretentious body of boxing executives...
...walk through the "hallowed halls of Harvard" and out of them into the U. S. A. of the late nineteenth century, as Martin R. Delany, William Monroe Trotter, or W. E. B. DuBois. In our old selves we will meet some of the same ghostly notions in white that haunt our lives today. Squinting is natural at first, but soon we see, and when we return to America '71, Harvard and any place else we be, we can see some similarities...
...very system blacks are trying to use to their advantage ("It takes your soul and it gives you a color TV set in return"). Educated black men and women may indeed never have had a better opportunity to get a piece of the action, but poverty, despair, hopelessness still haunt the nation's ghettos; all too many black Americans remain preoccupied with sheer survival. In fact, the gap between white and black family income overall continues to widen, despite remarkable gains by educated urban black families in the North and West. "How can people be uptight about...
...exit even in the house of horrors that is the Charles Manson murder trial, but it is not possible to leave such a place in peace. As the end of their work finally neared, the jurors last week were shown a display of aberration that was bound to haunt them for a long time to come. It amounted to an unstated plea of insanity...
...life, though ordinary enough, seems to haunt me-in uncommon ways. It seems to come to me-from somewhere else. Someone. And I've been trying to understand it; but it seems that I can't get it. So: the noted French wit Jean-Luc Godard said: "What is film? Film is Truth-twenty-four-times-a-second." So I thought that if I put it all down on film, and I put my thumb on it and I run it back and forth ... And I stop it when I want to, then I got everything...