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...Bird was the MVP of the tournament as well as the season. In the final seven-game play- off, the Lakers won the first in Boston and appeared to have taken the second --with 15 sec. left, Los Angeles held both the lead and the ball--only to blink and lose in overtime. Following a 33-point Laker romp in game 3, Bird referred to the Celtics as sissies, and in the singular episode of the fourth game, McHale ran over Los Angeles Forward Kurt Rambis. The series changed...
...schematic eye that CBS uses as its television symbol seemed almost to blink and grow bleary last week. Since January the big broadcasting conglomerate (1984 sales: $4.9 billion) has been under attack from Fairness in Media, a conservative group endorsed by North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. It wants to acquire the company in order to eliminate what the right-wing outfit calls the television network's predominantly liberal bias. At week's end CBS appeared headed for more troubles after rumors started that Ted Turner, the flamboyant chairman of Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System, was about to attempt a hostile...
Pickens, the chairman of Mesa Petroleum (1984 sales: $413 million), an oil and gas producer with 650 employees, has gone eyeball to eyeball with the biggest, strongest and sometimes least loved of all U.S. firms, oil companies, and forced them to blink. Indeed, just the fear of Pickens has sent energy giants scrambling to merge with one another. Says Joseph Fogg III of the investment banking firm Morgan Stanley: "You would have to go back to the past century, to people like Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, to find someone who has had an equivalent impact on a major American...
...ROMANCE WITH a twist: Boy meets girl, boy gives girl bomb, boy loses girl. And, like a good love story, it ends with boy and girl walking off happily into the sunset. In between the meeting and the losing, however, there's so much plot that if you blink, you might be permanently in the dark. But if you don't mind a movie that makes you think (or if you've read the John Le Carre novel), the film version of Little Drummer Girl is worth the extra effort...
Which may be the reason ceremonies were invented: to hold time still by repeated practices, so that it would be difficult, or beside the point, to identify a particular date or age. Blink your eyes these next two weeks, and step out of history. Are we in London, Athens, Rome? Is that Carl Lewis or Coroebus of Elis? Time has no business in these events, which makes the Olympics a kind of illusion...