Word: muhammad
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Kahn's debut piece deals with the greatest performing rhetorician in sports history, World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali. Kahn visited Ali at his training camp in the Catskills the week before the fight, and talked with him hours after he narrowly retained his title in a tenuous 15-round decision over Ken Norton. Says Kahn: The piece is a column on Ali, "the public image and the private...
Color the scene A Clockwork Orange. On the night of the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton heavyweight fight last week, the action outside Yankee Stadium was worthy of Stanley Kubrick's chiller: gangs of youths rampaged, snatching tickets from fans, breaking into parked cars, seizing a city bus, attempting unsuccessfully to get into the stadium. An attractive woman was shoved face-first into a concrete wall outside the ballpark, and while she bleated in terror, three patrolmen watched unmoving. Pickpockets bumped profitably through the crowd lifting wallets, and young thugs from the wasteland of the South Bronx grabbed women...
...fighter sat in semidarkness, talking in an urgent whisper. When you sit with Muhammad Ali, he talks in whispers. He knows that when the heavyweight champion speaks softly, you strain to hear...
...cosmos, to observe two black men readying themselves for a fight at Yankee Stadium. The Ali I remembered was brave, young and handsome, and as remote from death as spring. But now this man had turned contemplative and grave. He was telling me something with great subtlety. Muhammad Ali was dying as a fighter...
...during the last days of Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, and he has fought well, sometimes brilliantly, through five presidencies. Young, he was Cassius Clay, the "Louisville Lip," establishing himself with his fists, his doggerel and his outrageous predictions. Now, four months away from his 35th birthday, he is Muhammad, the Muslim minister, pledged to peace and God. But he is also a great ticket salesman. If vulgarity sells tickets...