Word: trails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WISEGUY (CBS, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. EDT). A new slot in summer reruns has helped boost the ratings for this intelligent, hard-boiled crime drama, featuring Ken Wahl as an undercover cop on the trail of slimy bad guys...
...These missions are novel and trail-blazing," says Cornell University Astronomer Carl Sagan, president of the Planetary Society and the man who first proposed a joint manned mission to Mars. "In terms of science, we'll all find out a lot about Phobos." Furthermore, he says, "in the long run, Phobos could act as a staging platform for human missions to Mars. It could also be a place where humans could live and work while they control robotic explorers on the surface of Mars...
...President Reagan was preparing for the Moscow summit, Michael Dukakis took time away from the campaign trail to conduct a session of his own on Soviet- American relations. Crammed into his corner office at the Massachusetts statehouse was a pride of professors, including Madeleine Albright, Joseph Nye, Robert Murray, Marshall Goldman and Robert Legvold. Also present was Senator Bill Bradley, foremost of the congressional foreign policy mavens Dukakis has come to respect. In front of the Governor was a 50-page briefing book. All seemed set for a dry but dutiful seminar...
...German cities, about 250 English hooligans -- some wearing T shirts reading INVASION OF GERMANY 1988, others with their faces painted in Union Jack colors -- had been detained for drunkenness, looting and fighting. One Irish fan died, drowning in Frankfurt's Main River apparently while intoxicated. The rowdies left a trail of destruction that included dozens injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property damage. Outraged, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons, "The scenes that we have seen on our television screens are a disgrace to civilized society and make us feel ashamed that...
...time the governess beholds the church, Australian Author Peter Carey's third novel has begun to build to a spectacular finish. But none of the surprises to come are any more outlandish than the trail of circumstances and coincidences that have led up to them. Like the glass structure it celebrates, Oscar and Lucinda seems the stuff of shimmering, transparent fantasy, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail. The book does not, of course, weigh twelve tons, but it will seem substantial enough to readers unable to put it down...