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...Sakharov spent nearly seven years of internal exile in the closed city of Gorky. At a ceremony in Moscow last week inducting him into the French Academy of Sciences, Sakharov, who was allowed to return home last December, accused fellow members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences of spreading "cock-and-bull stories" about his supposedly "tranquil life" in Gorky. On the contrary, he said, he suffered psychological torture and frequent harassment while in exile. Despite the current policy of glasnost (openness), a newspaper account of the ceremony did not mention Sakharov's remarks...
...Soviet news agency Tass, however, said U.S. allegations of Soviet espionage were a "cock-and-bull story" and that the Pentagon came up with the "spy scare" in an effort to undercut the State Department...
Ultimately, however, Angel Heart is a mental and physical cock tease. Hollywood and Alan Parker have once again fallen victim to their appetite for the sensational and the uninteresting. If you're looking for cheap thrills and sexism, this film is the place to go. But to escape the bad, somewhat salty taste it will leave in your mouth, try the hole in the wall of the nearest peepshow. Chances are, if Angel Heart is any indication, Alan Parker might be in line ahead...
First there was Peter, who had denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed and who finally was martyred, according to Origen's histories, crucified upside down on a hillside. Then came St. Linus, St. Anacletus and St. Clement I, who may or may not have been drowned off Crimea with an anchor around his neck. These were the first of the heirs of St. Peter, the Popes of Rome, some of them loved, some feared, some venerated, some murdered. One of the proudest and most powerful, Innocent III (1198-1216), started calling himself the Vicar of Christ because...
...good grin, good moves and better hustle. To a generation of comic impressionists, Jimmy Cagney's mannerisms became part of the standard repertoire: the tough-guy, tommy-gun chatter, the feinted jab to convey affection (first aimed at Loretta Young in Taxi) and the square-shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired in March 1984, Cagney stood a head above any mob of imitators. Last week...