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Whether Knight should coach forever-or ever again for the U.S.-was hotly debated by people who watched his treatment of players in Los Angeles. Knight is a relentless perfectionist; to him, a flawed victory is as unsatisfying as a defeat. Late in the quarterfinal against West Germany, Jordan carelessly dribbled the ball out of bounds. From the bench Knight bellowed, "Michael, get in the game!" With six minutes left to play in the semifinal against Canada and with the U.S. ahead 62-42, Guard Leon Wood threw a loose pass and was pulled out of the game...
...NASA understatement. Agency engineers soon realized that assessing and correcting the problem would take at least ten days, and possibly much longer. By week's end they traced the shutdown to a faulty valve in one of the shuttle's three engines, as well as to the perfectionist main computer, which oversees all auxiliary computer systems on board. When it detected that the valve was sluggish in opening, it automatically shut down the entire operation, as curtly as it might flick off a light...
...imprint on the songs. The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones would all acknowledge a debt to Gaye's subtle crooning style. And, of course. Gaye became a painstaking musician, playing most of the instruments on his later albums and earning a reputation as a studio perfectionist...
...position secure even in the nervous network world, she remained driven and dedicated, a perfectionist who rarely relaxed. In newsrooms she was sometimes jokingly referred to as "Jessica Savage." The former general manager of Philadelphia's KYW-TV, Alan Bell, recalls, "There was a show-must-go-on quality to poor Jess. In the grand tradition of laughing on the outside and crying on the inside, when the red light went on she'd be out there giving...
DIED. Jean Troisgros, 56, perfectionist chef of France's nouvelle cuisine; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Vittel, France. Troisgros and his younger brother Pierre turned their small-town family restaurant in Roanne into a mecca for traveling gourmets. Rejecting the heavy tradition of French haute cuisine, with its sumptuous dishes and rich sauces, the Troisgros brothers highlighted the freshness of ingredients used in such elegantly simple recipes as their classic salmon with sorrel sauce and the eclectic coupe-jarret, which consists of five different meats cooked in a kettle. Dashingly handsome, Troisgros eschewed the globetrotting celebrity...