Word: kennings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counterpunching created more than another dent in the former champ's fragile ego. They put a crimp in the multimillion-dollar plans of Promoter Don King to get Foreman back in the ring for a rematch with Titleholder Muhammad Ali. After flirting with retirement following his victory over Ken Norton last fall, the aging Ali has signed to fight unknown Italian Lorenzo Zanon for about $4 million in Korea this May. Zanon, not even heavyweight champ in his own country, will presumably be paid in pasta for the anticipated pasting...
Directed by JONATHAN KAPLAN Screenplay by KEN FRIEDMAN and JONATHAN KAPLAN
...same increase in interest in the lower weights can be seen in the classiest division of boxing, the heavyweights. Fighters such as Ken Norton, Jimmy Young, George Foreman and Duane Bobick provide the star, Ali, with a supporting cast for the first time in a long while. There are some serious contenders around, rather than the steady diet of Chuck Wepners, Joe "King" Romans and Ron Standers whom we've seen far too often...
Roger Martin was the co-captain and MVP of his high school basketball team. Ken Argentieri wrestled and played tennis "way back when" for Baldwin High School. And Greg Nitzkowski ran track and played football before he left the sunny skies of Huntington Beach, Calif., for those of Cambridge...
...especially since their frequencies are very close. Part of the problem is the thick-textured score, with its constant cacophony and acoustical fireworks; part of the trouble is the structure of Agassiz, which lacks a pit or shell to muffle the orchestra. Still, director Leslie Koenig and musical director Ken Getz should have worked out some compromise so that the audience could hear the lyrics as well as the music...