Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blue Country has even less of a plot than Tacchella's Cousin, Cousine and of fers less romantic consolation than that extraordinarily popular movie. A kind of pastoral "Hecksapoppin," it is, like its predecessor, full of rich comic types and amusing asides. Above all, it makes you feel good as you leave the theater, which is more than you generally find in a comedy these days...
...games. His career in boxing has of course been totally entangled with his celebrity-Ali may be the most famous man in the world. Since he took the heavyweight title from Sonny Listen in Miami Beach 14 years ago, "the Greatest" has been the protagonist of a vast popular psychodrama in which sport was only a part. But more vivid than his conversion to Islam, his anti-Viet Nam politics or his famous mouth is the memory of his sweet dancing vitality in the ring. That recollection played in the back of people's minds, almost in their subconscious...
There are relatively few athletes whose glories and declines seem to acquire an emotional importance. Quarterback Joe Namath, who retired several weeks ago after 13 years in pro football, is one. In his early years with the New York Jets, Namath's popular image had more to do with booze and stewardesses than football. His feats alone brought the upstart American Football League into parity with the National Football League. But like Ali, Namath's lasting imprint in memory involves certain splendidly perfect moves: his flickingly fast release of passes, his clairvoyant readings of defenses and where...
...long I stretches between displays of his old brilliance, a battalion of "Arnie's Army" remains, believing in I him, a little like Lee's Confederates after Appomattox. What the army remembers are the things that made him the first man to turn golf into a truly popular spectator sport: his remarkable assaults upon a golf course, audacious physical attacks that swept his followers with him by the millions. Just this month he was the king of the clubhouse at the Bob Hope Desert Classic, surrounded by what the press tellingly described as "middle-aged groupies...
Kirkland, for example, is a traditionally popular House, but because House officials indicated there would be no room for transfers Kirkland received only one applicant, Spence said...