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This background slowly blends with two creaking plots. One involves a 1964 SS plan to install teleguidance systems for some German rockets based at Helwan in Nasser's Egypt. The second sends a brash young German reporter searching for a former SS captain and war criminal who turns up alive and devilishly deep in West German industry and the rocket caper...
...facile judgment that Bruce reviled--the kingdom where the tribe, clad in patchwork dashikis, determines that the man who gives it up for God is best, the man who doesn't is second best, and the man who talks about it is dirty." Barry gives us the whole brash, bitter, sex-loving, comic...
Harassment. Directing the campaign for the Irish government is Justice Minister Desmond O'Malley, 33, a brash political fighter whose antipathy toward the I.R.A. was sharpened by the recent bombing of his father-in-law's pub just north of the border. Under O'Malley's authority, the government has prosecuted more than 100 I.R.A. men on various charges, tightened controls on firearms and explosives, and last month raided and padlocked the Provisional Sinn Fein offices in Dublin. This week the government will present to the Irish Parliament a bill that seeks to redefine membership...
Young Winston does make a pretense of revealing some of the less attractive sides of Churchill's personally, but does so in a shallow, journalistic sense which avoids the darker recessed of a very complex man. The young Churchill was brash, egocentric, wholly absorbed in his political career. He blatantly infringed on a main canon of British breeding (somehow lost in the Atlantic transit) which considers youth a regrettable interlude to be borne with patience and modesty, and ambition as tolerable only if it is decently concealed. The film does treat Churchill's publicity-mongering, as well as his dismal...
Obviously on the run, a black youth named Randall bursts into the shop as Glas, its aged, stony, tight-lipped owner is absorbed in taking inventory. Randall, who boasts an I.Q. of 185, and who, in his brash bellicosity mingles canned ghetto jargon with quotes from Kafka and Francis Bacon, begins to verbally assault Glas's defensive taciturnity...