Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Celebrating at a dinner party with another ideal couple, their friends Katerina (Bibi Andersson) and Peter (Jan Malmsjo), Johan and Marianne have to face something rather unlovely. Beginning with taunting asides and barbed revelations (sexual and otherwise), Katerina and Peter erupt into one of those verbal cockfights designed to draw the other spouse's blood in front of mixed company. Johan and Marianne are embarrassed to silence, but what has really been stilled and wounded is their purring complacency in their own bliss...
Compared with Ali's endless repertory of wit and rhyme, Foreman's verbal acrobatics seem hopelessly square. "Do you know the Pledge of Allegiance?" he will ask someone for fun. Or Foreman may test a visitor by asking him to recite the Lord's Prayer. Ali may soon lose his claim to being No. 1 in fast footwork. Last winter, when Foreman was living in Los Angeles, he studied ballet. Though he demonstrates pliés only when photographers' backs are turned, Foreman says, "I took up ballet after seeing a dance show in Las Vegas...
...mellowed in recent years. In the early mornings, when he is being rubbed down after roadwork, he can actually become contemplative. "People ask me why I'm constantly talking and performing. It's because I've been blessed with showmanship. People come to see me expecting verbal contact and I give it to 'em because I like to talk. I'm not some illiterate pug. Boxing will survive without me though. The presidency has survived without Nixon. Boxing will get by without the king...
...serious warning about Whitney's: It is a male dominated institution and women who venture there are liable to suffer some mild verbal abuse from the patrons. When the revolution comes--sources expect it within the next five years--Whitney's will be a decent place...
This is where last year's phantom of "conflict-of-interest" once again rears its head. Hill says that Daly, Peterson, and Champion will all be treated just like other tenants when he finally sits down with them to discuss the plan. This is, of course, only a verbal promise from Hill, but it is probably more than coincidental that Hill, the man who is in charge of the arrangement, works for Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration and the only one of Bok's top financial aides who does not live in a Harvard-owned house...