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...Good afternoon, everybody," Kuhn opened the post-mortem like a cheery pathologist or a play-by-play announcer. 'Anything you'd like to talk about...
...Crimson Couch Bob Scalier pointed out in his post-mortem: "They were bating us to the ball in the critical situations all game long. We didn't play aggressively in those spots; we were standing and watching and waiting, while they played an excellent defensive game...
...interested in them now. The frenetic world of '60s sex and drugs makes for a kickier nightmare than Viet Nam or Watts or Kent State. It offers an escape into Hollywood melodrama, but with the frisson of real names and familiar faces. How else to explain the post-mortem celebrity of Edie Sedgwick? Once a footnote in any pop history of the decade, she is now the summer's hot number. Edie (Knopf; $16.95), a 450-page biography of her, is secure on the bestseller lists; and Ciao! Manhattan, a grotesquely autobiographical film she made eleven years...
...Then, raising the net to expose his face, he told his congregation of thugs that the day's shootings would be conducted according to the honor system. Zapped personnel were to assume that death was instantaneous. They were to expire without comment, and of course without any post-mortem cannoneering at the enemy. Judges would be available to settle torts among defunct contestants, but we who were about to play the National Survival Game, he said sternly, were to do so with a sense of fairness...
...into high drama. The candidates media ploys, public pronouncements, travel schedules, deployment of personnel--White briskly showed how every little tactical choice carried the potential for making or breaking a campaign. And in 1976, when White refrained from writing about the presidential sweepstakes, no one else's electoral post mortem could fill the void. Jules Witcover's painstakingly researched Marathon came surprisingly close, but even casual readers of the genre could see it lacked the romance of The Making of the President series...