Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matched for the title with Champion Sonny Liston, a great, seemingly invincible giant of a man. Clay called Listen an "ugly old bear" and pranced around carrying a bear trap to the delight of the photographers. Budini Brown, Clay's corner man and cheerleader, gave his fighter the perfect line: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." That is precisely what he did. Cassius attacked, disappeared on those marvelously fast feet, attacked again, disappeared again, until the bear was beaten, helpless in his corner...
Coming Home, Ashby's latest film, is the flip side of Shampoo-and its perfect companion piece. Also set in Southern California in 1968, the movie is about those unfortunate Americans who could not escape the war's deadly grasp: the men who fought in Viet Nam and the women they left behind. Like Shampoo, Coming Home offers a devastating vision of this country's recent social history, but the new film is no comedy. Coming Home is, as its material dictates, one long, low howl of pain...
...uniform, facing the Cardinal Newman Old Boys Rugby Club of Buenos Aires. Panting, mostly. Final score: Old Boys 11, Aardvarks 0. "I know the game; I played it for 14 years," gasped his honor at half time. "But I haven't played for the last six." Ah, the perfect host...
...emotionally raped; we are measured, above all, by our work; we are encouraged not to bond, neither to each other nor to women. We are desexualized, desensualized; neuter brains, success machines. We are not supposed to enjoy touch, but supposed to be pure, powerful, intellectual, super-human. The prototypical perfect male is Mr. Spock of Star Trek, possessed of deep dedication and dominated by love (but always higher love: love of beauty, love of knowledge, love of truth), raped of every normal animal feeling...
...ailments that plagued him throughout his career. "I remember after my first knee operation, right after I signed with the Jets, my doctor told me I'd be lucky to play four seasons." He played 13. In Vince Lombardi's estimation Namath was "an almost perfect passer." In Joe's own words last week, he was "a helluva entertainer." He will take his time to decide on future commitments, but TV commercials, movies and sports reporting are all possibilities. Coaching? Probably not. Says Joe: "It takes up too many hours to do it right...