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Images boasts Susannah York in its central role, although her presence is nothing to brag about. She plays a wealthy writer of children's stories who is beleaguered by some decidedly grown-up fantasies, mostly having to do with her husband, a couple of former lovers, an enigmatic child (Catherine Harrison) and various manifestations of menace and death. When her husband packs her off to the countryside for a rest, the lady's predicament becomes even more woeful, as does Susannah York's performance, which gives way to a battery of twitches, groans and grimaces, interrupted...
...flag, no symbol, no offices. Its leaders are shadowy, constantly shifting and unknown. Members are drawn from all guerrilla groups and become known only when they are killed or captured. This of course may well be a self-serving defensive explanation to avoid Israeli retribution. Since they began to brag about operations against Israel, leaders of the rival Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have fallen victim to mysterious attacks. One, Ghassan Kanafani, was blown to bits along with his niece, in Beirut in July, as he started his car. Israeli agents are suspected of planting the explosive...
While the experts ponder, the current dilemma remains and can be read on the backs of the ever-multiplying automobiles that choke Western city streets. The license plates still brag about BIG SKY COUNTRY and LAND...
...four richest men in the world [including Howard Hughes]." That was not unusual; all through the project, Irving disguised the fact that he was interested only in Hughes by saying he was doing a book on four of the world's wealthiest men. He did, however, brag to his cousin Mike Ham-ilburg that he was deeply involved in a book exclusively about Hughes. Meyer claims that he never showed the Phelan manuscript to Irving. Late last week Meyer was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles that will, like the federal grand jury already...
...next morning I couldn't remember anything either of us had said," the American recalls. U.S. technicians "wired the whole damned apartment for sound," and every word was subsequently recorded. But, the American adds: "Even dead drunk, he didn't give anything away. The only thing I can brag about is that I was just as drunk?and I didn't blow anything either...