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...more than two blocks away from the 1980 Republican Love-In, another political party watched the week's festivities with a condescending smirk as it readied itself for the November showdown. The leaders of the National Unity Campaign--Michigan division for Rep. John B. Anderson (R-III.)--insist that it was only a coincidence that they opened their Detroit headquarters last Saturday, two days before their former bedmates hit town and just in time to absorb the overflow of media coverage seeping through the walls of Cobo Hall...
Challenge the Red Army to a home-and-home American football showdown...
Once he establishes this premise, Higgins keeps things moving. Of course, Mikali will run afoul of the one man capable of discovering his double life. Of course, these adversaries will stage their final showdown on the occasion of Mikali's greatest triumph, a concert in London's Albert Hall. The plot, as formally predictable as a minuet, diverts without disturbing. Higgins' prose is simple to the point of sketchiness. Sentences lack verbs-a lot of sentences. Clichés nudge the brain along well-worn paths: "That sixth sense that had kept him alive for so long...
...started the season on the bench, suffering with a sore arm. When coach Alex Nahigian gave him his chance after a series of impressive relief appearances, the decision paid off--in spades. The Crimson wound up the season at 24-12, triumphing in a grueling showdown with Cornell and Yale to win the Eastern League, topping perennial power Brandeis to cop the Greater Boston League crown, and only succumbing to St. John's in the NCAA regionals in extra innings--a couple of wins short of the College World Series...
...Belmont, Temperence Hill spoils a showdown...