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...FIRST TOP CIA OFFICER CONVICTED OF acts committed in the performance of duty. That alone makes Clair George a big catch for the Iran- contra prosecutors. But after six years and $33 million worth of frustration, his also was a rare conviction that might stick. A jury convicted the former chief of the CIA's spy network on two charges of lying to Congress (he was acquitted on five perjury counts). He could be sent to jail for 10 years, though it is unlikely he will ever go behind bars. Still, independent counsel Lawrence Walsh called his conviction "an important...
...Bart St. Clair is terrific as the semi-sadist in question. He also sends up a series of characters seeking to cash in on Seymour's sudden success, portraying everyone from Clair Booth Luce to a William Morris agent. And as the voice and puppeteer of Audrey II, respectively, Toby Blackwell and Bill Tomlinson create such a wonderful "mean green mother" of a plant that you almost start rooting...
Harvard Film Archive. Entr'acte/Intermission. Directed by Rene Clair. One of the first films in which the images and events do not follow a narrative continuity, but are related on the principles of the unconscious works. A Page of Madness/Kurutta Ippeiji. Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Depicts the inner world of insane people, confined in a lunatic asylum. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 7:30 p.m. $4 for students and seniors; $5 for general admission...
...years and $30 million, Iran-contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh is calling it a day. He announced that after eight guilty pleas and convictions, he will present no more cases to the grand jury. Walsh still plans to prosecute former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and ex-CIA spy chief Clair George. But barring unforeseen evidence, the rest are off the hook...
Former CIA Director William Webster believes that most agency staff members have learned the lessons of the Iran-contra debacle, and is against retrying George on practical grounds. If punishment is required, he argues, Clair George has already suffered profoundly. If it's a warning to other CIA officials that is needed, the messa