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...Crimson hurler shared his control problems with a quarter of Crusader pitchers--Ric Burgess, Bill Pflum, Jeff Goddard, and Jim O'Connor--who combined for a total of 12 walks. When they managed to get the ball over the plate, Crimson batters teed off, with Vinnie Martelli and Farrell belting home runs...
...found the spoor of Mass Murderer Martin Bormann, he began to concoct a scenario: What might happen if a group of Jewish avengers located the Führer? The resulting novel, The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., has already aroused angry controversy in Britain ("Astonishing," Anthony Burgess wrote in the Observer, but the New Statesman charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy grew last month when Playwright Christopher Hampton presented a stage version now playing at London's Mermaid theater, that Steiner thought was "too faithful" to his book. That fidelity made the aging Hitler, played...
...about this $12 million "science fantasy adventure" must seem like pulling the leg of a museum dinosaur-an unfairly anarchic response to an enterprise so painstaking, so educational, so forthrightly solemn. Director Annaud even recruited Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) to devise appropriate gestures for the actors, and Anthony Burgess (Language Made Plain) to create primitive dialects, all heavy on the grunts and gutturals. But jokes will come, especially since Quest for Fire emerges less than a year after Caveman, a goofy romp through prehistory that managed to supply the punch lines to many of Quest's earnest questions...
...pair of crafty old hierarchs, Cyril Cusack and Burgess Meredith seem to be having some informed fun, but most of the characters disappear from memory as soon as they leave the screen. It's a shame...
...conference was founded in 1958 to help Christians cooperate in spreading faith and furthering social justice in Africa. Under its previous general secretary, the Rev. Canon Burgess Carr, a forceful Anglican from Liberia, the fledgling ecumenical group won considerable prestige. Among other things, Carr helped bring an end to Sudan's 17-year civil...