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To: ggersh who wrote (123365)	10/26/2016 8:46:46 AM
From: John Pitera	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217571

You like that one, Howard Cosell was interviewing Muhammad Ali in the early seventies in what became a famous sound bit... Cosell ask Ali why he was being so truculent..... Ali responded by saying " Whatever truculent means, if that's good, I'm that" -g- of course, Ali said it with his sinature panache. Cosell: “You’re being extremely truculent.” Ali: “Whatever truculent means, if that’s good, I’m that.” Such animated, unrehearsed repartee transformed what could have been traditional interview fare into delectable, can’t-miss live television. Instead of two enormous egos crashing into cacophony, the Ali-Cosell bond created a symphony of sound bites. That, in turn, drove monster ratings and furthered their individual causes. HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant was a newspaper columnist in New York when the Ali-Cosell phenomenon was born on ABC-TV. usatoday.com ------------------------- Truculent - definition of truculent by The Free Dictionary www.thefreedictionary.com/truculent Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent. 2. Showing or expressing bitter opposition or hostility; aggressively defiant: a truculent ... JP