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...disagreeable Soviet officer while trying to aid the Afghan rebels, Rambo is recalled to primitive business as usual. There are, of course, low cunning, high explosives and much running around without a shirt, punctuated with other familiar gambits: torture scenes; the self-cauterization of, and instant recovery from, a wound large enough to stop an elephant; and a grimly preposterous two-man stand against a tank-led army...
Within a month after becoming General Secretary in 1985, Gorbachev set about to cauterize the wound. In the weeks ahead, Gorbachev and his comrades must be prepared for the spectacle of their abandoned Afghan quislings hanging for ) their lives from the undercarriages of Hind helicopters as they lift off from the Soviet embassy roof -- or hanging dead from the lampposts in Kabul...
Although George Bush and Pat Robertson have declared a truce in the G.O.P. presidential campaign, Republicans in North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District apparently did not get the word. A gathering in sleepy Franklin County to pick three delegates to the national convention wound up as the Battle of Louisburg. Fists flailed, noses bled, bodies flew off the stage...
Bochco broke into TV with a summer job at Universal studios and wound up spending twelve years there, turning out scripts for shows like Columbo and McMillan and Wife. In 1978 he moved to MTM Enterprises, the studio started by Grant Tinker and his then wife Mary Tyler Moore. After a couple of failed series, Bochco and another MTM writer, Michael Kozoll, were asked by NBC to develop a police series with a human touch. They came up with Hill Street Blues, which debuted in January 1981. Though ratings were low at first, NBC stuck with the show; it went...
...Deep down inside," says Joe Morgan, the black second baseman whose splendid career wound down with the Robinson Giants, "I think it's true that he was hoping for and expecting more from us. We all like to say we give 100%, but a baseball player can always take another step somewhere along the line. The black players weren't fair to him in Cleveland; I'll leave it at that. And ! some of our guys let him down too, if you want to know the truth of it. When I heard about the Baltimore job, I almost sent Frank...