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...Lorean's shrewd and crafty defense attorneys, Howard Weitzman and Donald Rée, maintained a similar high pitch of righteous indignation throughout the trial. They portrayed their client as an embattled entrepreneur seeking to fulfill the American dream, a man himself the victim of a giant conspiracy: "Lured, lied to and pushed" into a trap set by Government agents who were "on a headlong rush to glory." The tactic was to put the Government on trial, and it worked. De Lorean never took the stand. Nor did his lawyers ever make a direct defense on the grounds...
Howard's biography is shrewd and intelligent and supplies all the details about Margaret Mead, down to her recipe for salad dressing. Bateson's memoir is more an act of poetic intuition. Yet she is blunter than Howard about her mother's affairs with lovers of both sexes, and more specific about the earth mother's need to be mothered herself...
...also plays like a team member. After Summitt benched her in practice for ball-hogging, Miller learned that she could be valued just as much for shrewd passing as for shooting. Her bursts of brilliance, known to the admiring as Miller Time, were typified by one spectacular 52-sec., eight-point rampage in the gold-medal game. With the U.S. ahead by 50-38, she soared above the rim to tap in an offensive rebound, snared a defensive rebound and drilled a 60-ft. pass up court to Denise Curry for a score, stole the ball and traversed the length...
...gleaming pearl, the scintillant colony of Hong Kong, which London is due to return to Peking in 1997. The favored strategy so far has been caution. Through 19 rounds of official bidding and bluffing, the British have remained outwardly imperturbable, while the Chinese have countered with a variety of shrewd hands...
What kind of people do Americans want to be? They want to be a great deal better than they are - not only better paid or better clothed, but better. Not merely passive recipients of favors from the governmental All-Daddy, or, on the other side, shrewd looters cooking the books and snickering through the loopholes. The potential idealists inhabit the middle between those two caricatures. They crave material wellbeing, certainly. But they also want to be, saying it plainly, active participants in the larger enterprise of their nation. They want to do some good, to make changes. The candidates...