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...Edmund Lloyd...
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras (Z, State of Siege) builds Missing around the arrival in Santia go of Herman's father Edmund (Jack Lemmon), who joins Horman's wife (Sissy Spacek) in a frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered...
...Edmund G. Brown, Jr. named Sheldon W. Andelson--a Los Angeles lawyer who was a member of the platform committee at the Democratic National Convention in 1980--to the board...
...logs also disclose the curious range of conversations that J.F.K. taped: a meeting about "the gift of two tame deer" and the retirement of two White House policemen; a telephone call to congratulate California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown on his election victory over Nixon in 1962; a talk with his brother in 1963 to discuss articles in TIME and Newsweek; even chats with his wife Jacqueline, on topics blacked out in the logs...
Which is not to condemn Kafka in the least, for his suffering was truly awful: Hayman believes that it was quite an achievement for the writer to have salvages as much as he did from his despair. Even Edmund Wilson, in an essay that otherwise sternly downplays the importance of his work, concedes that "the cards were stacked against poor Kafka in an overpowering...