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...region of the country seems immune from that interaction. In North Miami, Ira and Ruth Gordon coax their friends to shuffle through their memories. Says Ruth Gordon: "Every couple we've ever invited over to play the game has bought it the next day." Nancy Spencer, a devotee of the game from Clifton, Va., claims, "It's better than charades, and that's hard to beat." She adds, "It's only frustrating when the kids know more than you do." In Hollywood, where game playing is sometimes the most exigent art form, Trivial Pursuit...
...procedurals closely enough to make mystery readers comfortable and adds enough variation to keep everyone alert. Hackett realizes that Alice is his best and only hope for information. John James (a pseudonym, apparently) said things in front of his stepdaughters that might lead to his identity; the detective must coax Alice into remembering snip pets of conversation that she did not understand in the first place...
...edited out). As the outtakes were shown to the jury and to TV audiences watching the trial live on Cable News Network, viewers got a unique chance to see how a story is put together and to second-guess CBS's editorial judgment. They watched the Rather team coax witnesses, stage a confrontation and repeat questions until it got the best camera angles or the most vividly phrased answers; they heard Rather testify that people who do not return phone calls are probably guilty...
...understands all this and the resolution of the play lies in whether or not he can coax Hallie back out of his shell. Hallie needs Sam's friendship more than ever. And underneath Sam's attempt to shield Hallie from the cruelty of the world is his own burning need to prove that whites and Blacks can live peacefully together...
...Mobil Oil Corp. are building a 500-mile system that will cost a total of about $1.2 billion. That system, in which Continental Resources Co. also has an interest, is to be finished in the third quarter of next year. The Shell-Mobil project alone could coax out an extra 280 million bbl. and boost output by about...