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Ken Norton, 31, the opponent, is child of the black middle class, a star in two dreadful movies and the possessor of a body that Irving Rudd, a boxing publicist, called "mythologically hewn."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Doing It Just One More Time | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Thus far, no fond literary genius has come forward to do for romance and tennis what the late P.G. Wodehouse did for love and golf in stories like The Heart of a Goof and The Clicking of Cuthbert. Nor has any opera or fairy tale yet taken up the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

The torturer's lexicon also includes mordant, mocking names for their techniques and instruments. The Wet Submarine, for example, means near-suffocation of a prisoner by immersing him in water, or, frequently, urine; the Dry Submarine is the same thing, except that a plastic bag is tied over the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Macabre World of Words and Ritual | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

On the second night, all 180 delegates gathered to hear Liverpool Nightclub Comedian Ken Dodd get off a few dreadful one-liners (sample: "The Russians are jealous of the British because the Soviets never win any bronze medals"). The delegates laughed politely and the next morning repeated the jokes to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Killing Laughter | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Although it is a dreadful piece of soft porn-so repetitive in its acts that it makes sex boring-Elizabeth Ray's autobiographical novel, which Dell Publishing Co. is rushing out next month, is certain to cause a great guessing game in Washington. She contends that the events and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Liz Ray's Little Black Book | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

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