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...many faces: he brings the tenacity of a Haystacks Calhoun, the confidence of a Superstar Billy Graham, the grace of a Bruno chest flex, and the diplomacy of a Chief Jay Strongbow war dance to the New England region of the World Wide Wrestling Federation in his managerial capacity therein...
...Therein lie the true hazards of contemporary athletic violence. The debunking of the athlete-as-hero is hardly new. Such disaffected jocks as Dave Meggyesy and Jim Bouton have uncovered more clay feet than there are statues. The facile comparison of football and the Viet Nam War was one of the shibboleths of the '60s. Even the littlest leaguers know that professional sport is hard, fast and punishing. But now there is something more than imagery at stake: a danger that the whole perception of games is being altered...
...across him battling wild mountain lions. Realizing the man's fantastic potential as a professional wrestler, they sent out a party to capture him. Although few in the party survived, the Butcher was captured, and shipped to America in a cage. Many of his opponents wished he had remained therein. Abdullah has been photographed attacking his adversaries with the severed leg of a sheep, with metal pipes he must have ripped out of the walls of stadium lavoratories, and with fruit canning equipment; at one match, angered by the disparaging remarks of fans who questioned his sportsmanship, he decided...
...Therein lies the flaw in virtually all biographies of entertainers. Performance is a mysterious process, often beyond the comprehension of performer-and critic. That mystery is worth dissection; everything else is a banal fever chart of catcalls and triumphs...
...since 1971-and they will begin to assemble a plan for America. It is not going to be a tidy thing like those blueprints that Henry Kissinger produces for the world. It may end up more of a state of Jerry Ford's mind than anything else, but therein lies the immediate future...