Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stop writing Ali's epitaph; he does not belong to the ages. He projects infinite variety and has exhausted only one of his talents. Win or lose, for millions he's a champ...
However, it looks like Navratilova will continue to lose the battle for crowd support--at least for a while. Tonight she will take on Evonne Goolagong in the semifinals, and Goolagong, who is now married and has a son, pointed out last night that "all the mothers in the crowd'll be pulling for me. And there are a lot of mothers out there...
...Cacciato got the Silver Star for shooting a Viet Cong in the teeth. But one day the goofy kid checks out, marching to Paris, and the squad is sent to bring him back--Paul Berlin, Doc Paret, Oscar Johnson, the Lieutenant, and the rest--but in Paris they lose him, just as they lost him all along the way. This is a wonderful idea for a novel, but even in this novel it doesn't quite happen--at the Laotian border the squad turns back, and the chase goes on only in the mind of Paul Berlin...
...musician is careful to keep his instrument in tune, Warren Zevon takes some pain to live sufficiently close to danger and desperation so as not to lose his cutting edge. At 31, he is a dedicated juicer who can put away a bottle of Stolichnaya a night and a gun-wielding roisterer. He is also an attentive father and melancholiac composer who works in fits and starts in the short hours before dawn, turning out his strange songs and working occasionally on "my long-boasted-about but seldom-heard symphony"-all on the Steinway concert grand that stands...
...despite his pre-tournament fear "that I would lose every bout" against the other schools' best epeemen, Kaplan rose to the challenge. Against Drvobinsky he quickly fell behind, 3-0, but then fought back as the overconfident NYU fencer relaxed...