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...best heavyweight in the world as long as Ali remained unbeaten? Not according to millions of Ali's fans. Certainly not to Ali himself. "I want Frazier," he screamed when Joe won the title. "I want Frazier now!" Now is next Monday night. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Ali and Frazier will finally decide, in 15 rounds or less, who really is "the greatest," who is the "onliest champ...
Fortunately, a few of Groove Tube's commercials go beyond this kind of pleasant but pointlessly low humor, to probe deeper into the diseased minds of Madison Avenue with careful, closely-drawn parodies that are scarcely distinguishable from the originals. The new-car ad, for instance, uses a standard, wide-angle shot-sequence of a chromium monster gleaming in the middle of a desert, a sequence taped from an actual commercial. The dubbed-over pitch makes the claims about the car that, in an ever-tightening ring of circumlocution, the promoters of Fords, Chevrolets and Pontiacs have been working towards...
...National Invitational Tournament committee, which began inviting teams Tuesday to play in its Madison Square Garden tourney from March 20-27, may choose an Ivy League team because of a ruling last. December by the Ivy Policy Committee...
...selection committee in New York named St. Bonaventure as their first pick for the sixteen-team tournament which will open March 20 at Madison Square Garden...
...Blue Leaves), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Happy Birthday, Wanda June), and Jules Feiffer (Little Murders, The White House Murder Case). In a sense, they are all cartoonists (as Feiffer actually is), commenting on life, but never really bringing life to birth on the stage. They all write rather like Madison Avenue dropouts, reaching for the zingy zany line that will somehow sell their intrinsically pessimistic little packages. They are all loaded with urban chic. For these cosmic jokers, Manhattan is the cosmos...