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Among the alibis Conner offered and Murray declined were the narrowness of the starting line and the nearness of the spectator fleet. A ragtag armada, 800 remarkable vessels ranging from the Achille Lauro to the Love Boat, tails along in a boiling wash. "They were a factor," insisted Conner, who called for more elbow room. In the second race the wind came up, and while tight quarters prompted a momentary Kookabura protest, Stars & Stripes ran away again and plainly seemed capable of doing it in any conditions...
...entry in the early-morning wars had an armada of foes to overcome, even before it went on the air. Fans of the old CBS Morning News were outraged by the network's cancellation of that long-running broadcast, whose low ratings had persisted for years despite a revolving door of hosts and formats. CBS News staffers resented the fact that the fluffy newcomer would be produced by the network's entertainment division. Rivals were publicly contemptuous. Bryant Gumbel, co-host of the front-running Today, scoffed before the new show even aired, "Desperate people do desperate things...
Childcraft's superb sets of large wooden blocks (ranging from $35 to $200) are crafted to be the foundation not only of manual skill but of imaginative construction that older kids can carry forward into Fisher-Price's excellent $5-to-$38 Construx sets. These will yield an armada from outer space that & might handily be reinforced by some vehicle from the cartoon-linked but still lively MASK series, or by the formidable Giant "vertical climbing system," a rumbling series of interlocking rough-roaders (scant assembly required) that can make it over cartons and well up walls...
...bridge the human gaps, Hands organizers were expected to string miles of red and blue ribbons and rope. Cars and trucks were to be lined up trunk to hood. At week's end an armada of catamarans and sailboards hauled to the site by their owners made a surreal sea as they floated bow to stern on a hill west of Albuquerque. Hands Tennessee Organizer Tif Bingham said the event would be a huge success, no matter how broken the chain. After all, he pointed out, "the main purpose of Hands Across America is to raise money for the poor...
McKellen, giving perhaps the best performance of his career, is Mr. Puff, a hyperkinetic and vaguely Celtic specialist in panegyric, which is to say, a forerunner of the modern public relations man. From touting others, he has turned to writing his own epic tragedy, The Spanish Armada. At a rehearsal, everything goes wrong. The actors drop whole swatches of dialogue as turgid and unplayable. The bit players upstage the leads, who swat them. A sword fight is a model of slapstick ineptitude. A Minister of State (Petherbridge) comes out, stares at the audience long and balefully, and departs...