Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such suspense - and such full-throated comedy - as the picture offers derives mainly from Allan Magicovsky as Adams' wildly jealous lover. He takes to following Sutherland around in a men acing way, and he might, in the process, discover just what game is afoot. But he doesn't, and neither does a cop who stops the escaping Sutherland because the van carrying the swag to the airport has a malfunctioning taillight. Magicovsky was our last hope for some real excitement, but only modest suspense is generated by the encounter. Like everything else in this movie, it is underplayed...
...latest Soviet flotilla reached Cienfuegos on Sept. 9. Daily U-2 reconnaissance flights were ordered, and the Cuban reaction to them showed that something unusual was afoot. MiG fighters scrambled after our first flight. A U.S. Navy antisubmarine aircraft was shadowed for 60 miles while a MiG made several strafing passes. I was sufficiently concerned to warn the Soviet Union publicly on Sept. 16 that operating missile-carrying submarines or nuclear weapons from Cuba or servicing them from there would have grave consequences. Since we did not yet have any concrete evidence, I stopped just short of making a direct...
...desire to see him change, she had begun to forget what Slimane was really like." Worse still, revolution is afoot in North Africa, and the local French officer orders her to go. Yet the poignancy of her leavetaking, with the young man running beside her departing train "until all at once there was no more platform," represents triumph as well as defeat. Sadness is possible where before there had been only indifference...
Despite his autocratic methods, the Pope remains a theological liberal, a doubting Declan carrying the keys of the Kingdom. Sensitive to the anguish of Catholic couples, he adroitly bypasses the birth control ban of Pope Paul VI's Humanae vitae. He sets afoot a plan to bring divorced and remarried Catholics back to the sacraments from which they are barred. He admits that "every intelligent human has some doubts about an afterlife." But his messages can be demanding. Visiting the U.S., he becomes a Savonarola, exhorting Americans to repent and share their wealth with poorer countries. Finally, this onetime...
Bird may be weak on defense and a bit slow afoot, but neither shortcoming should prevent him from getting a lucrative contract in pro basketball. The Boston Celtics drafted Bird last year as a junior and have until June 24 to sign him. The team has gone out of its way to acquire Jeff Judkins and Rick Robey, both friends of Bird's, an obvious effort to feather a nest for him in Boston. Says Celtic Player-Coach Dave Cowens: "He's unselfish, he can pass, and he doesn't mind mixing it up underneath...