Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategy was built around two facts spotted in the first fight: offensively, Johansson needed to get set to throw his paralyzing right hand; defensively, he moved back quickly from an attack. To keep Johansson from getting set, Patterson planned to press him constantly, throwing a stinging left jab from his new stance. Warned Florio: "Leave Johansson alone in the center of the ring, and he'll knock your head off." In close, Patterson hoped to lower Johansson's guard with flurries of body punches, then use left hooks to catch up with the retreating champion and finish...
...Polo Grounds, the months of training and planning paid off spectacularly. As seen through Patterson's eyes, the look on Johansson's face told the story. At the bell, Johansson's expression was contemptuously confident. Then, as an entirely new Patterson hammered home his left jab, moved aggressively inside with rapid-fire bursts of punches, Johansson took on the quiet half-smile of a man presented with the task of solving an unexpected puzzle...
Antic Meet, set to squeaking, creaking, honking music conducted by Composer Cage himself, was mostly satirical-a spoof of social conventions, sports, the modern dance itself. At one point Cunningham pulled on and off a multisleeved sweater in a pointed jab at Martha Graham's fondness for dressing and undressing while dancing. At another he appeared in white coveralls and went through a marvelously loose-limbed parody of vaudeville-style dancing, with broad suggestions of Fred Astaire. The piece contained few outright ballet laughs, but it was distinguished by the clean, sculptural style that is the mark of Cunningham...
...Wash board. Looking like a small lady Martian in her white crash helmet and goggles, New Hampshire's round-cheeked, chunky Penny Pitou, 21, was the first skier to jab her poles into the snow and set off. Penny plummeted through the schuss, hit the bump at such a speed that she was forced to the washboard surface on the outside of the turn. For one frantic second, she tottered on one ski, then recovered control to flash home...
...Last Voyage (M-G-M). "Fire in the engine room!" These are the first words in this film, the first jab of what turns out to be the most violently overstimulating experience of the new year in cinema: an attempt by two shrewd shock merchants, Andrew and Virginia Stone (Julie, Cry Terror!) to give the mass audience a continuous, 91-minute injection of adrenaline...