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...years as TIME'S sportswriter, Philip Taubman has spoof-sparred with Muhammad Ali, volleyed verbally with Jimmy Connors and tried to keep pace with Walt Frazier. But nothing in his experience prepared him for reporting this week's cover story on Oakland A's Owner Charlie O. Finley, the P.T. Barnum of baseball. "I am 30 years younger than Finley," Taubman says, "but I could barely keep up with him. He really wore me out." Taubman followed Finley from his Chicago digs through the All-Star game in Milwaukee and on to Kansas City last week...
...country's beloved matriarch. Though she declined to appear for any television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some spoof gifts from Grandson Prince Charles. As one admirer explained, the "Queen Mum" has always enjoyed a good "legpull...
Though it requires the stamina of soccer, Ultimate Frisbee is in many ways a spoof of big-time sports. Most of the schools with teams are far from athletic superpowers-Tufts, Hampshire, Rutgers, Holy Cross, Clark University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The players take pains to maintain their non-jock distinction. When Rutgers showed up at the first Intercollegiate Frisbee Championship held last month at Yale sporting numbered uniforms and soccer shoes, the Tufts varsity responded by wearing yellow T shirts all emblazoned with the number 3. At the Tufts-Hampshire tiff, the first Frisbee was thrown out by the grandmother...
...Have Nothing to Declare but My Genius is full of fizz and vinegar. It is a magnificently spiteful spoof about a rich, prolific hack written by a man who frequently describes himself as a bleeder and a firm believer "that easy writ ing makes hard reading." The hack is the kind of man who dashes off a few mysteries before breakfast and boasts of popularizing Shakespeare so that he will be "comprehensible to the veriest moron ... to even a rock fan." He is also a painter with a worldwide reputation...
They are selling decadence short in this musical, but they are very bullish on silliness. The Rocky Horror Show is a mindless spoof of old horror movies performed to the accompaniment of a rock score in the style...