Word: bested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best future asset is the forthcoming liaison with France's rich dowager, Renault, which will eventually own 22.5% of American Motors stock. Renault's mini Le Car is selling well in AMC showrooms and drawing customers to some of American Motors' own models. Automakers will survive in the future, says Meyers, if they sharply focus their markets and hook up with international partners. Those that do not, he adds, "will be wiped out as thoroughly as Custer's 7th Cavalry...
...pack is a six-hour miniseries, The French Atlantic Affair, which will have to face such competition as A Bridge Too Far (NBC) and Silver Streak (CBS). ABC just may win. Its mini-series aims so low that it does not even qualify as popcorn entertainment; the show is best watched while chewing sugarless...
Fouts took over from his dead-armed and ineffective hero in the fourth game of his rookie season, and went on to endure six chaotic years as the best target on one of pro football's worst teams. The Chargers ran through six offensive coordinators in seven seasons, and shed head coaches almost as frequently. With the arrival of former St. Louis Cardinals Head Coach Don Coryell in 1978, Fouts took off like one of his own passes. Coryell installed a sophisticated passing offense, a "tree" system that sends swarms of receivers downfield to move across predetermined "branches...
Marquand's self-deprecation seems only partly justified. If he had written nothing but his half a dozen best books, and none of his Post stories, he might have been spared a few swipes from reviewers, but his reputation now would not be much different, and his estate would have been far smaller. He wrote one superb and unimprovable book, Apley, several good ones (So Little Time, Point of No Return) and quite a few that were glib, unimportant, and exceedingly popular. He never had to teach freshman English or write book reviews, and he lived where he pleased...
Since his increasing respectability as a Washington columnist, people have proclaimed the existence of a new Safire, but the old Nixonian Safire keeps popping up: there he was, calling Carter "the best U.S. President the Soviet Union ever...