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...running sequences--training sessions, sprinting for fun, competitions--with the old foggy slow-motion treatment, and the symbolism weighs heavily. Add to this ponderous device the dreadfully outdated technique of indicating a quick rise to fame by presenting quickly-revolving newspapers that stop twirling long enough to exhibit a banner headline, and the verdict must be: technical naivete...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAGGIE! read the 80-ft. banner towed across the gray skies by a small biplane piloted by a fervent Tory supporter. Inside the rococo Winter Gardens ballroom at the seaside resort of Blackpool, the 4,000 delegates to the annual Conservative Party conference last week joined in song and cheers as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a self-assured 56, uncorked a bottle of champagne and cut the birthday cake. Exuding confidence, Thatcher picked up on the theme she had stated briskly on her arrival earlier in the day: "All is well. All is very well...
...Cincinnati Reds won more games and lost fewer than any team in the major leagues this season. But all it got them was the homemade pennant pictured above and the feeling that this has been anything but a banner year for baseball. As the play-offs got under way last week, the Reds (record: 66-42) were at home watching the likes of the Kansas City Royals (record: 50-53) play on national television. "I'm disappointed," said Reds President Dick Wagner, "that baseball put marketing and merchandising ahead of tradition." Baltimore Orioles Owner Edward Bennett Williams, whose team...
...first public address, De la Madrid told a cheering, banner-waving throng that his chief task will be to "choose the correct route that benefits the Mexican people." As Lopez Portillo has discovered, even with the advantages of oil wealth, that is not always easy...
Compromising has other problems as well, especially as a political platform. For one, it seems a boring banner under which to rally, and Tsongas does little to shake that feeling. Argument and reason are not enough to sway most of us; we want something to believe in, and the very principles of moderation that have put us in our current fix seem hardly enough. The slow steady path of a barge is less attractive that the swooping of a sailboat; it is worth noting that both vessels eventually reach their destinations, and that barges when they sink go down much...