Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partner. What fierce, cannibalistic love scenes we stage in films and even in private lives! Such Who's Afraid of Virginia foolishness! Such ripping and tearing! Such savage, winner-takes-all grappling! The fistfights in Five Easy Pieces seem like friendly interludes of token mayhem compared with the knockdown and drag-out lovemaking. Not the least among the crimes of angry art is that it makes sentimental art (Love Story, etc.) the polar alternative...
...Good Friday this year, Rex Humbard added to his empire. For about $3,000,000, a knockdown price for a property worth five times as much, he bought the almost new, fully equipped Mackinac College, previously run by Moral Re-Armament, on Michigan's Mackinac Island. A high school graduate himself, Humbard has launched a study to see if he can reopen the college, and he already has 452 requests for applications if he does. Even some of Humbard's loyal staffers are concerned about his ability to make this latest project pay. But Rex Humbard himself, obviously...
This immediately ended the fight under the three-knockdown rule at 2:03 of the final round. The fight had been astonishingly close until Ali's sudden thunder brought it to a wild...