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...started when a bona-fide superstar. Andy Messersmith, landed a ton of money as the first free agent. Soon every all-star from Vida Blue to Dave Winfield wanted a million dollar contract. It wasn't long before everybody--scrub, manager, and batboy--wanted his share of the megabucks...
Four years later, former Piston Head Coach Herb Brown is teaching basketball to high school girls somewhere in Arizona. Ben Poquette is a scrub with Utah, and Bob Lanier is closing out his playing days in Milwaukee...
...were killed when the building was stormed. In Qiryat Shemona that same year, terrorists made an assault on an apartment house; eight children died in the fighting. There have been dozens of such incidents in recent years?sudden death visited upon an otherwise tranquil area. Black goats feed on scrub. Trees crop up in spurts. Cows graze in fields stained brown where the rockets have seared them...
Frequent surveys in the past have measured material gains and quality of life; only two weeks ago, in fact, the latest such British study indicated that fully 96% of Britons can now scrub in either a bathtub or a shower, and 55% have central heating (that supposed bane of British life). But never before have the abstract social and moral values of Europeans been measured as they were by the E.V.S.S.G...
...this Canadian melodrama is a religious cult like the Moonies, and Director R.L. Thomas' tone is about as judicious as Friz Freleng's. David (Nick Mancuso), depressed over a short-circuited affair, falls in with some "Heavenly Children" who presoak his brain with homilies and then scrub it clean of all hope, feeling, self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted? At what point does he snap out of it?) And so it ignores the central dilemma: that...