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...there was good news at NBC last week, for so long the also-ran in the networks' ratings race. NBC hit paydirt with the five-night, twelve-hour, $25 million production of James Clavell's bestselling novel Shōgun, set in 17th century Japan and starring Richard Chamberlain and Yoko Shimada. Despite long doses of uncaptioned Japanese dialogue, Shōgun's mix of arch politics, discreet sex and graphic beheadings started big on Monday night with 70 million watching, and was still going strong at week's end as newspapers alertly provided daily plot...
...ALSO-RAN. Winning isn 't everything; it's the only thing, said Vince Lombardi. But sometimes nothing so becomes a candidate's run for the Oval Office as the manner in which he bows out. Sport and politics share the inevitability that someone must lose ?but also the redemption that there is almost always a tomorrow...
...makes diamond-hard action movies, has always wanted to direct an elegant, light-fingered comedy like the Grant-Kelly To Catch a Thief. For all anyone knows, Ernest Borgnine wishes he were Fred Astaire. But wishes aren't horses-and if they were, Rough Cut would be an also-ran...
...thrusting up a new star and creating new possibilities. That emphatically was the case in last week's voting, which shaded or changed the fortunes of the whole cast of characters from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, produced headlines for G.O.P. Congressman John Anderson, hitherto only a beguiling also-ran, and most important, pushed Gerald Ford to the edge of joining the race...
...Harvard varsity squash team continued its fall from "National Title hopeful" to "also-ran" Saturday by dropping a 6-3 decision to Pennsylvania on the Ringe courts in Philadelphia. The loss marks the first time a Crimson racquet squad has lost two league matches in a single season and sets Harvard's '78-'79 record back...