Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muhammad Ali's bid to regain the heavyweight championship got a shot in the arm last week. Several, in fact...
...Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...
...FIGHTERS concerns the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier bout in March 1971 and shows every moment of every round, recorded by a battery of cameras stationed all over Madison Square Garden. With only this fight footage, meticulously edited, Director William Greaves would have had a fine sports film. What lifts The Fighters out of the special-interest category is the first hour of documentary on the preparations for the match. The fighters, the promoters, the managers, the hangers-on, all speak a kind of spiked Odets chatter that makes the movie look and sound like...
...like youth. In the year of the energy crisis, maybe he was afraid someone might take him at his word and plug him in. Goldin did his best to exude energy during his inaugural address, though, punching the air as though he hoped to grow up to be Muhammad Ali and setting a new city record for irrelevant Biblical quotations in a single speech. But it just wasn't the same, somehow, Goldin had become an old dynamo...
...camp, known locally as Muhammad's Mountain, the words, as always, fly as fast as the punches. "Frazier's a robot," says Ah'. "He's a human punching bag." Ali promises that he will be better prepared for Frazier's methodical style this time. "I fought his fight last time. This time I'm gonna move. I'm gonna dance...