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...Jogger's friends and loved ones. The occasion was her birthday (27 by her count, 32 by others), and Manhattan's Studio 54 discotheque was festooned with balloons and ballasted with artificial snow. A twin-towered, castle-shaped cake awaited Bianca, who pranced around on a white stallion. Said she: "It was the most marvelous party I have ever...
Rocky is a club fighter-THE ITALIAN STALLION, as he styles himself on the bathrobe he wears into the seedy boxing rings he works in his native Philadelphia. His style is crude, and he is aging none too gracefully. To supplement his boxing earnings he serves as muscle for a loan shark...
...Hollywood standards. A broken-down neighborhood fighter, who boxes, "because I can't sing or dance," is picked as a last-minute replacement to fight the heavyweight champion of the world, mainly because the champ sees the promotional possibilities of the hero's monicker: "the Italian Stallion." The hero produces a rousing fight and, of course, finds love. The movie is fun- ny, unpretentious and relentlessly upbeat, sort of what Mean Streets would have been if Frank Capra had made it. Its only message-endure, reach your potential, be a man-is enough to give machismo a good...
Nobody would, anymore, of course. Nobody, that is, except Rocky Balboa, the "Italian Stallion" Creed chooses who, in his way of innocence, still believes that dreams come true. Rocky is an ordinary guy cloaked in the garb of a hero. With his desire to fight the good fight in spite of the odds, he is an admirably uncompromising man in a compromising world...
...task of readying the canal kept an international team busy for more than a year removing the detritus of two full-scale wars and a war of attrition. As the first step, U.S. Navy Sea Stallion helicopters towed minesweeping sleds the entire length of the waterway, searching for magnetic sea mines. The Israelis refused to say whether or not they had planted any, but none were found. Next, teams from the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and Egypt cleared out land mines, bombs, antitank mines, cluster bombs and anything else that might have accidentally fallen into the water...