Word: monica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sports cannot live outside reality." Last week the Muhammad Ali Amateur Sports Club in Santa Monica, Calif., decided not to wait for the White House and announced its own boycott. The group, consisting of 32 athletes, agreed to the move after listening to an emotional speech by , Ali. At least half a dozen club members -including Sprinter Houston McTear and Hurdler Greg Foster-were considered top Olympic contenders...
DIED. Joan Blondell, 73, brassy blond film star for five decades; of leukemia; in Santa Monica. The daughter of vaudevillians, Blondell went to Hollywood in 1930 and made 54 films in eight years, mainly playing gun molls and chorines. Later she perfected the role of the blowsy, wisecracking blond in The Cincinnati Kid, Grease and TV's Here Come the Brides. "It's fine to start out as a curvy biz-whiz," she said, "but it takes all the talent you've got in your guts to play unimportant roles...