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...candidate's resounding victory last night followed a hotly contested primary election six weeks ago. In that race, he faced a host of Democratic candidates in a field that eventually narrowed to include State Sen. George Bachrach, activist and former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King, and James Roosevelt...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: 8th Congressional District Gives Kennedy a Landslide Victory | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

...sincere about it. There was a lot of heart in the performances." Byrne discovered that film can be as subtle and malleable as the tracks of a recording, which may account for the sense of glee, of risks that paid off, that pervade True Stories. Says Filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard), who directed the extraordinary Talking Heads performance documentary Stop Making Sense in 1984 and served as an "active friend" to Byrne during the making of True Stories: "You couldn't name a more exciting new director. He can give you something brand new that you understand even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Renaissance Man | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...makes us want to go out on that field and destroy," says Halfback Melvin Bratton. As it happens, the Hurricanes' cleanest liver is their finest player and main destroyer. In Vinny Testaverde, they have produced a third quarterback for the ages in just the '80s, their sixth decade in the business but the first to speak of. The Hurricanes had a tradition in the '40s, but not of winning. They canceled a game with UCLA rather than play against Jackie Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Miami Against the World | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...long-suffering understudy, Testaverde had become a figure of team sympathy. "When you see someone that good working that hard," Melvin Bratton says, "it's depressing. We kept telling him, 'Your time's coming, it's coming.' " Now that third-year Coach Jimmy Johnson describes him flatly as the "best college quarterback I've ever had," some of them marvel that he is unchanged. "He's just old Vinny," says Gregg Rakoczy, the center. "He wants to show how good we are, not how good he is." Despite himself, Testaverde showed how good he was at eluding the Sooner pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Miami Against the World | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...first attack began with Roosevelt andactivist Melvin H. King, who were then trailing inthe polls and attacking both of the topcontenders. Their charges that the state senatorhad been an ineffective legislator were at firstignored by the Bachrach camp...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: How Joe Kennedy Got the Dems' Nod | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

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