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...were devastating during the first week. "Are there a lot of coaches who could take this team and medal? Yes," Canadian Men's Jack Donohue asked and answered. "But are there a lot of coaches who could make them play like this? No. There's only one Bobby Knight." It occurred to the Los Angeles Times's Jim Murray that putting Indiana's famous bully in charge of an Olympic team is like "assembling an aircraft carrier to ply the waters between Staten Island and the Battery." Murray wonders: "All this to beat Uruguay?" Behind former North Carolina Tarheel Michael...
Like all of Inge's best plays, Sheba is slight of plot but musky with atmosphere. An alcoholic chiropractor (Philip Bosco) and his slatternly wife (Shirley Knight) live in a dreary house in the Midwest, diverted from maudlin introspection only by their boarder, a sprightly college student (Mia Dillon). Doom seeps through every dusty curtain. Although the husband is supposedly recovered, it is apparent that he is looking for an excuse to take a drink. Although the college girl is beloved as a surrogate for the couple's baby daughter who died 20 years before, it is evident...
Liberalism is under attack from all sides--political, cultural, and philosophical--and as a political creed it sorely needs a defender, a knight in shining armor. Yet Cuomo, a deeply religious man, approaches liberalism as he does Catholicism, reciting the party line as an article of faith rather than as the product of intellectual inquisition...
When Walter Annenberg sold the Inquirer in 1969 to a forerunner of the Knight-Ridder chain, the city's dominant paper was the rival Bulletin, which advertised, more or less accurately, "In Philadelphia, nearly everyone reads the Bulletin." The Inquirer was uncreative, undistinguished-it even employed an investigative reporter who took money to suppress stories-and in danger of dying an unmourned death...
NONFICTION: D.W. Griffith, Richard Schickel ∙ The Knight, the Lady and the Priest, Georges Duby ∙ Knock Wood, Candice Bergen ∙ The March of Folly, Barbara W. Tuchman "Son," Jack Olsen ∙ Tales from the Secret Annex, Anne Frank