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...finalist, much to its own surprise, was Holland, an erratic but courageous crew much faded from its splendor of 1974, when the Dutch lit up the World Cup before losing valorously, 2-1, to the Germans in the final at Munich. The other was, and had to be, the wonderfully likable Argentine team, absent-minded on defense (as the Dutch themselves were), rough and rowdy at both ends of the field and a raging if sometimes patternless force on offense...
...turn and into the home stretch, driving for the wire, joined in desperate struggle. With 3/16 of a mile to go, Alydar pushed in front by a nose, but Affirmed, running now on heart, reclaimed the lead with 20 yds. left. They thundered home, two great colts running in splendor. When it was over, Steve Cauthen put the dimensions of their duel with eloquent simplicity: "This was a horse race...
...triangular concourse of the new East Building is a big gallery for special exhibitions, with 17,000 sq. ft. of space. This week the entrance to that gallery is flanked by two life-size figures of armored jousting knights on horseback. They introduce the huge exhibition titled "The Splendor of Dresden," an assembly of objects borrowed from the East German city, which for centuries has been famed for its collections of art and other treasures. Observed one 19th century writer: "Heaven and earth were moved in order to bring together on the Elbe whatever could still be pried loose...
Well, you gotta realize he's saving that part for another book, a full memoir of the splendor of the Nixon years, in which Watergate'll be a minor episode. Haldeman says duty called him to straighten out Watergate after the Nixon/Frost interviews, which incidentally cast him and Ehrlichman as the villains Nixon was just trying to protect out of a sense of humanity. Ol' Bob's revisionist history runs like this: "I believed in tough campaigning too, but even from my hardline standpoint, Nixon went too far at times. But political strategy wasn't my province, only the mechanics...
...actress who plays Anna is right, Anna Karenina can scarcely fail, and this production rides, like a Moscow sleigh, on Pagett's splendor and charm. Like many other Masterpiece Theater series, it is slow in starting, and Scriptwriter Donald Wilson has created inexcusable confusions in the first three episodes. A viewer will even be hard pressed to tell when and where Anna and her lover...