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Article: Jimmy Connors's wonderful life. (tennis) (column)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 16, 1991
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Proving that life isn't really a Frank Capra movie, but ought to be, the romantics of tennis, and beyond tennis, have embraced Jimmy Connors as an elder statesman and national hero.
In an obituary of Capra that coincided with a resuscitation of Connors, the New York- Times noted: "From the 1960s on, Mr. Capra deplored most new movies, saying they mirrored an `ashcan' view of life and flaunted a `blame-somebody-else' permissiveness, vicious antiheroes, excessive violence and lewdness." Connors was very much a man of this time. But in an editorial last week, cloyingly titled "Love 39," the Washington Post declared: "There are times when a little loutishness is to ...