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...this cinematic extravaganza of another Tom Clancy novel, Jack Ryan even has the same wife (Anne Archer) and child (Thora Birch), but here instead of battling the "other" of the Irish Republican Army, he goes head-to-head with the Columbian drug cartel, and more specifically the links the illegal drug trafficking organization has to the United States government. Ryan even gets to ball out the president played by Donald Moffat. With all of these differences, it seems as if Clancy should have switched the names of the two novels, making this one "Patriot Games" and the other dealing with...
Jack Ryan assumes the post of his good friend Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) without fully realizing that his underlings and co-workers are surreptitiously plotting against him. He wants to be up front in his dealings with the Columbian drug lord Ernesto Escobedo (Miguel Sandoval). He wants to stomp out their operations, but not at the cost of human, especially American, life. Suffice it to say that everyone is double-crossed during the film. Those who were at one time enemies become friends, and friends become foe. When all is said and done, Ryan is the single remaining...
...archaeologists and workers located tombs that had been sealed off since their occupants were buried. He began what would stretch into years of patiently peeling away layers of debris and removing the delicate objects of metal, shell and stone that gradually unraveled the mysteries surrounding the lost culture. Pre-Columbian expert Christopher Donnan, of the University of California, Los Angeles, joined the project: photographs of tomb objects were made and sent for comparative analysis to UCLA's Fowler Museum, which has more than 135,000 pictures of Moche artifacts in its archives...
...COLUMBIAN ART AND THE POST-COLUMBIAN WORLD, by Barbara Braun (Abrams; $75). African sculpture and its influence on modern art is well documented. Less so is the effect of ancient American design on 19th and 20th century painters, sculptors and architects. Braun traces the aesthetic roots of artists such as sculptor Henry Moore, painter Paul Klee and architect Frank Lloyd Wright back to the Maya, Aztec and pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru...
...club members wore a moose head and brown cloth to represent the Columbian white-tailed deer. The two lay on the ground with their extremities stiffly extended to mimic dead deer...