Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sundry apple hats, Fred Barton's Launce cuts the incongruous figure of a country bumpkin crossed with a New England preppie. Attired in billowy corduroy knickers and some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets on the way to the ale house, and Speed makes up for his raspy voice with quick...
...recent months, U.S. defense officials and strategic analysts have warned repeatedly that the Soviets were rapidly increasing their ability to destroy American missiles. Meanwhile, although the fact has received surprisingly little publicity, the U.S. is on the verge of taking a big step forward in its own ability to knock out Soviet ICBMS in their steel-and-concrete silos. The startling success of the new program has important implications for the delicate balance of terror between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The developments are bound to be an important factor when the two nuclear superpowers begin low-key SALT...
...constituents who praised the program spoke in generalities; nearly all those who mentioned specific parts of the plan denounced them-above all, the proposal to enact stand-by taxes on gasoline. It is just that combination of generalized, but lukewarm, support and fierce opposition to specifics that could knock out important chunks of the program, leaving it shapeless. Those folks the Administration sends out to chat on TV may have a tough job ahead...
Suffering their third straight loss, the 4-6 laxmen now need to knock off ninth-ranked UMass this week just to keep alive their chances for a winning season. After the battle with the Minutemen, the Crimson wrap up the season with games against Williams and Dartmouth...
...10th," announced Ali last week. But the twice-wed champ seemed more concerned with bells in the ring. On May 16 he will defend his heavyweight title at Capital Centre in Landover, Md., against Spain's Alfredo Evangelista. "I think I'll get into the ring and knock him down, but I just don't know," he said with uncharacteristic modesty. "He's 22 and I'm 35 and he's killed hisself training. It's exactly like Rocky. "Or so he hopes. · The young lady from Ketchum, Idaho, is dusting...