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...band of N.B.A. All-Star troubadours. In between, they played a little basketball. Very little. Take Cuba: with 3 1/ 2 min. remaining in the game, the team was behind by 70 points, and only the final horn saved it from losing by 100 or more. Panama dropped a cliff- hanger by a mere...
...legal battles. In Tulsa organizer Pat Clancy says a Dallas-based team took over his group's bank account when they consolidated operations in Oklahoma City. When Clancy balked at being shut out, the World War II veteran was told he was a "security risk." According to Cliff Arnebeck, a Perot volunteer in Ohio, the Dallas-based advisers "squelch and humiliate" grass-roots workers. If a local organizer is at the center of a controversy over tactics or long-range strategy, the professionals "put out the fire by jettisoning those under attack...
...secret Naval Intelligence station in the Mojave Desert, where a 25-year-old mystery -- Who gave the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile to the Soviets? -- has never been resolved. Hyde leads us lengthily through the murk of old lies, from California to a wave-swept cliffside in Scotland to another cliff in Wales to East Germany and back to the black depths of a lost gold mine in the Mojave. Quick, light a match! Nope, despite tireless soliloquizing by hero and villain (which is which constitutes the book's main puzzle), motivation and plot remain obscure...
...Even the teetotaling George Bernard Shaw has a memorable walk-on, defining the people around him: "The Irish. From so little they glean so much: squeeze the last ounce of joy from a flower with no petals . . . The Irish? You step off a cliff . . . and fall...
...Cosby Show makes a graceful, understated exit. There is no grand climax, tear-jerking finale or other last-show gimmick, and only one nostalgic flashback (a father-son talk from the very first Cosby episode). In the last scene, Cliff and Clair perform some minor business about a broken doorbell, dance together, then stroll off the set. Stepping out of character, they walk arm in arm through the cameras, crew and applauding studio audience. And, with becoming modesty, into TV history...