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...LAST year has been a pretty lean one for rock and roll freaks. No Beatles, no new Stones to speak of a disappointing third album from the Band, and a couple of Dylan albums that at their best moments are just barely tolerable. We have had to rely on second-string groups who continue to produce solid, respectable, and, on occasion, brilliant, records; people like Creedence, the Dead, the Steve Miller Band, Delaney and Bonnie, Elton John, Poco, Leon Russell, Traffic, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All these people are putting out fine music, but none of them...
...jaunty slogan of his training camp was "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Now at his headquarters in Miami Beach's Fifth Street Gym. the byword is "He moves like silk, hits like a ton"?and for good reason. Yon Cassius no longer has that lean and hungry look. After 3½ years of exile, he returned to the ring four months ago to dispatch California's Jerry Quarry with a third-round T.K.O. In defeating Quarry, Ali showed that he still had the lightning combinations and darting moves. But there were two marked differences in his attack...
...Promise. Kennedy, who looked lean and a bit haunted after Chappaquiddick, has put on weight and regained his sense of humor. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, he mused about his personal and political life: "In the recent past I suppose I've had more than my share of tragedy and disappointment. The pendulum swings wide, and when it does, you develop an ability to live with these changes." Kennedy dismissed the widely published rumor that he had promised his 80-year-old mother, Rose, to run for President during her lifetime. Nor does Kennedy credit...
...begin to explain, James Taylor's peculiar hold on the ear and imagination of youthful Americans. A good deal of his success is based on the kind of personal magnetism that has been making baritones and matinee idols rich and famous for generations, a particular masculine presence. Lean and hard (6 ft. 3 in., 155 Ibs.), often mustachioed, always with hair breaking at his shoulders, Taylor physically projects a blend of Heathcliffian inner fire with a melancholy sorrows-of-young-Werther look that can strike to the female heart?at any age. Half explaining, half apologizing for her delight...
...atmosphere seep in as his story rides, doesn't try to obfuscate the dialogue, and relies squarely on his camera only in climactic moments. Since the film is an epic, there are many of them: gruesome treks, battle scenes and fatal individual combats. There is little of the David Lean-William Wyler pretension strangling itself in technicolor and wallowing in bathos...