Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranchers out around Hays, Kans., who, like 40 million other Americans, watched the television epic Lonesome Dove, figured that the great Texas- Montana cattle drive came right over their broad land. If that fantasy were turned into fact, then in all probability the tough old trail bosses Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call drove their herd across the Smoky Hill and Saline rivers and pushed north to beat the merciless winters they knew were in store for them...
...second game, the spikers pulled out to a 7-2 lead working with a well-balanced 5-1 lineup. Boston College rallied with a four-point spurt and came back to trail by only one, 7-6. Harvard, with its front line hitting and blocking steadily, seemed on the brink of victory when it served for match, point...
...remain the medium's most stubbornly unfashionable genre. Lengthy mini- series too are at a low ebb of popularity, especially after last fall's disappointing War and Remembrance. Will crowds of viewers really mosey to the set for a four-night, eight-hour saga about cowboys on the trail...
There are scenes of harrowing violence and terrible brutality, made more shocking by their matter-of-fact presentation. A hanging on the trail is so swift and morally disturbing that the unsuspecting viewer is left breathless. Suffusing it all is McCrae's stoic resignation in the face of misfortune. "Yesterday's gone; we can't get it back," he tells a man grieving over three murdered bodies. "You go on with your diggin', and I'll tidy up the dead." In its terse prairie poetry, Lonesome Dove celebrates not just the old West but also the men who could witness...
Goodgame is too modest: he, like Duffy, spent the past year on the campaign trail. While Goodgame misses California, he relishes his new assignment. "Michael and I agree that the only thing worse than covering the White House would be not ever getting to cover it," he says. So far, the wait seems worth...