Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stripped of his title in 1967 over a draft-evasion charge, Muhammad prophesied that he would return to spook the sport: "There I'll be, wearing a sheet and whispering, 'Ali-e-e-e-e, Ali-e-e-e-e.' I'll be the ghost that haunts boxing, and people will say Ali is the real champ and anyone else is a fake." Last week, at a telecast of the Frazier-Ellis fight in the Philadelphia Arena, Ali wasn't whispering. He shadowboxed in the aisle and wailed: "I want Frazier! I'm starting...
Still, he is hired to defend a physician (played by Robert Colbert) who has been accused of murdering his very-nekkid wife, but who claims that the real killer was a bedroom intruder with a "ghost-like" shape. Predictably, Petrocelli is denied requests for a change of venue and sequestration of the jury, is harassed by the state troopers and pelted by the citizens, and has his client labeled a "wife-slayer" by the television commentator prior to the outcome. Besides that, everyone keeps mispronouncing his name...
...Ghost horses, I am like you: when the gray line of a sail