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...could return to full-scale violence if they thought it would profit their cause. Growing unionist disquiet about the I.R.A.'s true aims has led British Prime Minister Tony Blair to prepare a warning for the I.R.A. and other armed groups this week. O'Neill's apology was a clever way of heading off some of that pressure, and some saw it as just a P.R. ploy. "I am very skeptical and cynical," said Jim Dixon, who was severely wounded in a bombing in 1987 that killed 11 people. Others think it is more than a stunt. Tom Donnelly, whose...
...each of the men he kills, and goes to confession diligently. Tom Hanks' movie version has clearly resigned himself to damnation. Taking a more Protestant approach to salvation, he strives to keep Michael Jr. from following his father's violent path. David Self's screenplay alters the story in clever ways to bring out the theme of father-and-son relationships. For the movie Sullivan Sr. becomes the adopted son of Rooney (authoritatively played by Paul Newman) whose jealous son, Conner (Daniel Craig) orchestrates the murder of Sullivan's family. Where the book's crucial father/son scene has the father...
What rescues the film from tragic schematization are two factors. One is the killer hired to track the Sullivans, Jude Law's Maguire. He's a crime-scene photographer who often commits the crimes he photographs. He is modernism's eerie representative: clever, amoral, unpredictable except for his insatiable bloodlust. He is one scary...
...Until this tournament, where his enterprise and goals in the early rounds had football-lovers quietly hoping that the prodigal son was finally going to return to the stage where he belonged. His clever goal against Turkey, taken early, had put his team through to the final. Then his two strikes to the back of the German net?which gave him an overall tally of eight goals in seven games?finally laid his World Cup ghosts to rest...
...unblinkingly - on a man who "invented himself" and who was exposed to an excess of both joy and horror in his 41 years. Born André Friedmann in Budapest in 1913, Capa entered a world in conflict, between nations and between his parents. In his teens, André - poor, clever, bored, romantic at heart and discriminated against as a Jew - became involved with leftist revolutionaries, seeking out conflict and danger. When he was barely 18, he moved to Berlin and took up photojournalism. His first big break came in 1932, when he was assigned to photograph Trotsky as he spoke...