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Clearly, Reagan was in no danger. But if he had completed two more of the 18 holes, either he or his Secret Service guards might have confronted the emotional intruder near the clubhouse. The gunman, Charles R. Harris, 44, a millwright from Blythe, Ga., had rammed his blue four-wheel-drive pickup truck through a locked gate...
...doesn't beep, bleep, buzz or zap. It is played on a simple 20-in. by 20-in. multicolored board with a wheel-shaped pattern. Any number from two to 24 players ask each other questions drawn from 1,000 cards; a correct answer allows the player to move. Hardly Dragon's Lair but with a price tag as high as $40 in the U.S., it is indisputably a Boardwalk of board games...
HEART LIKE A WHEEL...
...format, Heart Like a Wheel occupies the ragged terrain somewhere between old B movies and new TV movies. A blue-collar inspirational, it follows Muldowney from her teen-age nights on New Jersey back roads in the 1950s to her unprecedented third National Hot Rod Association world championship title last year. As with the Mercury space program, drag racing is largely an achievement of the designers and mechanics; the driver is a high-risk passenger who needs guts as much as skill to command a vehicle packing 2,500 h.p. and moving at 250 m.p.h. with a force...
...soft eyes, tiny voice and sneaky shy smile have previously cast her as the noble loser; here she shows that those emblems of vulnerability can hide reserves of humor and resilience. This is a wonderfully American kind of acting: technically resourceful, but unforced and radiant. Heart Like a Wheel is a pretty darn good movie, but Bonnie Bedelia...