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...Rocky III seems fresh. And Rocky Balboa's charm wears thin. His lines are no longer startlingly expressive--they just seem startlingly ungrammatical and forced. "Nobody owes nobody nothing"; "it seems like everybody want to beat me up"; "don't get mentally irregular. "Maybe in Rocky, perhaps in Rockey II, these lines would work. But in Rocky III they are heavy handed and unoriginal, as if Stallone were trying to steal from his own previous films...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down for the Count | 5/28/1982 | See Source »

...plot of Rockey III serves as the only new addition. The movie begins with Rocky as a complacent and worshipped world champion; he lives in a mansion, drives a Model T around his grounds, and appears as a spokesman for American Express. Into this halycon world enters Clubber Lang (Mr. T), an enormous fighter who sports a mohawk. While Balboa runs around in designer suits, Lang really runs, getting in increasingly better shape as he climbs the boxing world's challenge ladder. Rocky agrees to fight Lang, taking on his former rival Apollo Creed as coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down for the Count | 5/28/1982 | See Source »

...individual competition, David Arnold of Winthrop was the pacesetter. Dunster's Rockey Keeler, Eliot's David Grant and Steve Clark, and Leverett's Mike Egan rounded out the top five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strauss Cup Race Tightens Up With Winthrop, Quincy Victories | 3/6/1969 | See Source »

...rest of the Harvard lineup, John Levin, Rockey Jarvis, Jose Gonzalez, and newcomer John Appleby, made short work of the Lord Jeffs. Losing 6-3 was as close as Amherst came to taking a set in the bottom four slots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racketmen Wallop Lord Jeffs, 8-1 | 4/17/1967 | See Source »

John Levin and Rockey Jarvis, the top players from last year's freshman team, will occupy the fifth and sixth positions. "They have great potential," Barnaby said. "It just depends on how rapidly they improve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racketmen Swing With Season in Sight | 3/29/1967 | See Source »

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