Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the fight began, there was little in action or tactics to suggest the startling turnabout to come. Beneath a full moon in Kinshasa at 4 a.m. (the better for prime-time closed-circuit TV viewing in the U.S.), Ali led a crowd of almost 60,000 Zairians in a chant of "Ali boma ye!" (Ali, kill him) before he began to dance round the ring, dodging Foreman's powerful swings. It was just as the experts and even the boxers themselves had predicted: the bear was chasing...
...Paper Moon (ABC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.) is cute rather than awesome, as befits what is intended to be a comedy. An ever-open convertible is often glimpsed gleaming invitingly in the ceaselessly shining sun. The car is a symbol of the footloose lifestyle Moze and Addie Pray (Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster) have chosen as the best way for con man and girl to survive the Depression '30s. It is, apparently, a rolling Camelot. The pair have yet to encounter any bad weather, let alone any bad vibes on ABC the roads they (theoretically) share with...
...stands, Paper Moon is the most spiritless comedy-regardless of setting-on the tube. Sons and Daughters (CBS, Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) comes closer to self-parody, therefore to being funny (at least for one or two viewings), than Paper Moon. It purports to show us the problems of what it tries to pass off as a typical high school class of the 1950s. The kids spend most of their time necking at the drive-in or necking in lovers' lane. Or rather squabbling about necking, because the girls all appear to be in a state of permanent hysteria...
Aside from all questions of relative talent, the Oakland A's-a team notorious for lack of togetherness-were playing the series last week in a state somewhere between turmoil and anarchy. Two of their top relief pitchers, Rollie Fingers and John ("Blue Moon") Odom, were recovering from an impromptu locker-room brawl. Star Slugger Reggie Jackson (TIME cover, June 3) was playing on probation, having been warned by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for threatening a reporter. Pitcher Jim ("Catfish") Hunter was embroiled in a public contract dispute with Svengalian Owner Charles O. Finley, who was overruling Manager Alvin...
...result of his efforts, astronomers can now clearly "see" in radio frequencies objects that are billions of light-years*- away, a feat that the Royal Academy equated to seeing a postage stamp on the moon with an optical telescope. Using Ryle's techniques, radio astronomers are extending their investigations to the very edge of the observable universe. Their findings are bringing man closer to an understanding of how the universe began and how it is evolving...