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Despite growing police pressure on I.R.A. terrorists in both Britain and Northern Ireland over the past year, authorities acknowledge the organization's continuing ability to stage spectacular attacks, especially during highly publicized ceremonial occasions. As Major General Desmond Langley of the Queen's Household Guards said: "We must do everything we can to stop I.R.A. attacks. But it is difficult because ceremonial duties are public, predictable, routine and totally nontactical. If we attempt to vary times and routes, we are not fulfilling our ceremonial function." At week's end the police had arrested no suspect...
Word of the discovery came last week from British-born Anthropologist J. Desmond Clark of the University of California at Berkeley. Says he: "I think we've got something both significant and extremely exciting." Although paleontologists often scrap as furiously over their bones as saber-toothed tigers, they do not disagree with Clark's assessment. "It's of tremendous potential," says Berkeley's F. Clark Howell, who has spent years fossil hunting in East Africa. Agrees Duke's Richard Kay: "A blockbuster...
Cracking jokes about this $12 million "science fantasy adventure" must seem like pulling the leg of a museum dinosaur-an unfairly anarchic response to an enterprise so painstaking, so educational, so forthrightly solemn. Director Annaud even recruited Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) to devise appropriate gestures for the actors, and Anthony Burgess (Language Made Plain) to create primitive dialects, all heavy on the grunts and gutturals. But jokes will come, especially since Quest for Fire emerges less than a year after Caveman, a goofy romp through prehistory that managed to supply the punch lines to many of Quest...
...even the plot raises some troubling questions. It concerns the efforts of a young and ambitious priest named Desmond Spellacy (De Niro), and his brother, Tom an L.A. detective (Duvall), to resolve the gruesome murder of a young and fallen lady. Tom's investigations lead (inconclusively) to one of the biggest contributors to the Catholic Church in southern California, the archdiocese in which Desmond's considerable ambitions lie. To its credit, True Confessions does not seek a tidy ending that will send the folks home happy, but rather explores the complication and ambiguities of this sordid situation; the message...
CLASH OF THE TITANS Directed by Desmond Davis Screenplay by Beverley Cross...