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Topkapi. (1964). Merlina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov in a captivating caper about the theft of a gem-crusted dagger from an Istanbul museum. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color...
...Playing off against his brother Edward IV-prim in gray double-breasted suit with pink button-down shirt and polka-dot tie-he cuts up like a sinister baggy-pants clown. Cornered on the battlefield where he is about to lose his crown and his life, waving the royal dagger like a switchblade, he turns into pure street fighter...
...Jack Anderson and his trio of legmen have employed the boldest and, in Government eyes, the most outrageous guerrilla tactics. Secret memos, classified documents, off-the-record exchanges-all have found their way into Anderson's hands and columns (TIME cover, April 3). Countering with some cloak-and-dagger work of its own, the FBI last week arrested one of Anderson's men while he was loading stolen documents into...
...black art of scaring up tickets. As Macbeth, Anthony Hopkins is a restless animal, hopelessly possessed, feeding on eerie fears until they devour him. But soft, who is that lady he was seen with? That lady whose steely resolve disintegrates in guilt, who seizes her crucifix like a dagger, spits venomously on its tip, and invokes the spirits of night to fill her with direst cruelty...
...that the primitive art was inscribed between 1800 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Thus the carvings belong "not to prehistory but to protohistory-that period of roughly 2,000 years between prehistoric times and recorded history." De Lumley's dating involved shrewd detective work in museums. The short, triangular dagger blades portrayed in many of the engravings, for instance, closely resemble artifacts already identified as products of early Bronze Age (1800 B.C.-1500 B.C.) civilizations in the Rhone Valley and Swiss lake villages. Other daggers with either oval or elongated blades, concave edges and T-shaped hilts are typical...