Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself, Young chose a colonial home in New Rochelle, a New York suburb. But as his commuter train rolled through Harlem each workday, Young was troubled. "Should I get off this train this morning and stand on 125th Street cussing Whitey to show I am tough?" he once mused. "Or should I go downtown and talk to an executive of General Motors about 2,000 jobs for unemployed blacks?" Young, a civil rights leader who was interested above all in results, remained on the train...
...help him, and look away embarrassedly, they're not particularly hateful. They're probably very interesting people themselves, and their faces are amusing. There's just no way in the paranoid conditions they live under that they and Alfred can break through to each other. While they sit, another train rumbles unnoticed past the subway windows...
...nation's 19 snowbelt states are passing or planning new laws to regulate the noisy off-road machines. But even if all drivers are eventually licensed, they seem likely to cause more damage-at least to themselves. Last year 84 U.S. snowmobilers died in accidents ranging from train collisions to falling through thin ice. Reasonably prudent drivers, in fact, can be hurt by merely emulating the ads and "flying" their new toys well above ground...
...Girl Friday, Scarface, Only Angels Have Wings, Red River, Rio Bravo and half a dozen other examples of American film making at its best and most energetic. Hawks' 44th film, Rio Lobo, does not belong on that list. There are a few good scenes-an intricately executed train wreck, for example-but the movie is notably slack where it should be zestful. It is mostly a replay of familiar fare: John Wayne flirts with the girls, keeps the hot-blooded younger fellers in their place, and finally goes up against the bad guys in the last reel...
...angling for a rematch. He probably realizes what he's done wrong. And if the next bout is far enough into the future, Ali will have time to train and get his style right, so that the next time he fights Joe Frazier he won't have to hit the mat again...