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...band played Happy Days Are Here Again. On the giant podium, a Harry Truman impersonator gave a rousing speech nominating Kansas City as the location for the 1988 Democratic Convention. One member of the site-selection committee dabbed her eyes. "This is amazing," a stunned Democratic Party Chairman Paul Kirk quietly told his beaming hosts, "I've never seen anything like...
...Memphis State, whose basketball coach Dana Kirk is under indictment for allegedly demanding payoffs to play certain teams, has insisted that the athletic director approve all scheduled games...
Still, the movie was popular enough to tag the property as a solid box- office attraction. And gradually, the films' creators managed to beam the series up to competence, even to emotional resonance. In 1982 The Wrath of Khan brought Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) back from the executive junk heap to conquer both an old nemesis and a mid-life crisis. In 1984 The Search for Spock resurrected Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) for a reunion with Kirk that was tender enough to make a Vulcan almost cry. Now comes The Voyage Home -- and a radical, canny shift of moods. This...
...submarine; Scotty (James Doohan) brings postmodern plastics to Marin County. And Spock, wandering around Golden Gate Park in a Vulcan bathrobe and proving his ineptness with the local slang, must be passed off as a casualty of the '60s free-speech movement. "He did a little too much LDS," Kirk explains helpfully...
...Kirk, 51 years old, was at Memphis State for seven seasons and turned a losing program into a Top 20 contender...