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...Minister Yitzhak Shamir went so far as to meet secretly with Gemayel in northern Israel two weeks before his death to urge a treaty on him. But Gemayel wanted some breathing space; he knew that signing an agreement with Israel so quickly would anger large segments of Lebanon's fractious population...
Ever since the electronic eye's infancy, TV and the stage have been infrequent, fractious partners. The 1950s are remembered as television's golden age of drama, and for good reason: not only was a new generation of playwrights creating intimate drama for the anthology series like Kraft Television Theater and Studio One, but Broadway stars were bringing familiar plays into a million homes. Noel Coward and Lauren Bacall struck a happy medium in Blithe Spirit; Katharine Cornell exhumed The Barretts of Wimpole Street. But in a decade when just about every new Broadway hit was sold...
...only reflect society's perverse values. Why condemn the coach when he's merely trying to do what all the alums, students and other fans want, no less expect--to win? So come caution is in order in prescribing solutions. So is some skepticism: just try to get 80 fractious, selfish schools to agree on some sort of course of action...
Gretzky is so cordial, one gets the impression he wants to be better than the sometimes fractious Orr even off the ice, to handle it all as well as the always placid Howe. Gordie is to Gretzky what Brooklyn Dodger Gil Hodges was to Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey, a giant he happened upon as a child and who never disappointed either the boy or the man. "Sometimes," Gretzky says, "I think it would be nice just to play the game, take off the equipment and go home. It's embarrassing to talk about records. But then I think...
...usual fractious party conclave at a slightly seamy seaside resort that Britons have come to know and sometimes dread. Burnishing its image as the new model of British politics, the Social Democratic Party chartered a special train (promptly dubbed the "Flying Moderate" by some, the "Smoked Salmon Special" by others) for its first conference last week and took its show on the road for a rollicking six-day, three-city, thousand-mile extravaganza. The tour ingeniously gave each of the party's four leaders, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and David Owen, who are all former Labor Cabinet...