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...seen it five times that summer," he says. And how does the experience of viewing the movie today compare with his memories? "The beginning seems a bit slow now, perhaps because we're already familiar with the world it's introducing," he says. "But it still has that speedy kick...
...great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire. "Ali's charisma makes the film," says TIME's Richard Corliss. He hectors in poetry: 'If you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned,/ Just wait till I kick Foreman?s behind.' Some reporters, like George Plimpton, suspected that Ali?s smiles camouflaged his fear of the big, punishing champ. The film's title is rueful, notes Corliss. "Ali proved that athletes could be kings then; today they are often multimillionaires who behave like kids with a mean streak...
...budget promises $98.4 billion in middle-class tax cuts, mostly in the form of tax credits. Republicans and professional number-crunchers, though, reacted cautiously to Clinton's package, pointing out that it rests on rosy assumptions. What's more, most of the President's spending cuts won't kick in until after he has left office, letting him take credit now before the sacrifices begin to bite. Still, the budget may sit well with a public that says it wants Congress to tackle the deficit instead of nit-picking over the details. "Clinton has the upper hand," notes TIME...
...past two years, high-end labels such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren--many of them manufactured abroad--moved aggressively into denim, pricing their jeans at $48. Guess sales plunged, and Marciano says he had to cut labor costs. "If you don't stay competitive, they will kick you off the map," he says. The shift may already be showing results: Guess's profits improved slightly for the first nine months of 1996 with $40.5 million in earnings on $411.9 million in sales...
Discipline, however, is hardly the first requirement in the showy professional world. "It makes sense for an orphan to go for the bucks and kick back a bit," says Christine Brennan, author of Inside Edge, a best-selling book on skating. "But what Oksana did is equivalent to Tiger Woods' winning the Masters this year and saying, 'That's it, I'm leaving the P.G.A. Tour, and I'm going to play in pro-ams and exhibitions for the rest of my career.'" Brennan believes Baiul should have kept on a hard training routine for 1998 instead of settling...