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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another episode Corky gets a chance, over some parental reservations, to baby-sit for a six-year-old boy. Again credibility is dashed by melodramatic overkill. That night the fire department has to evacuate the house because of a gas leak. When a neighbor driving them to a nearby shelter gets lost, the little boy runs away and winds up at the bottom of a ravine. Corky comes to the rescue, lowering himself on a rope and climbing out with the boy on his back in a climax worthy of The Great Escape...
Years ago, Wakamba tribesmen poached in Tsavo, using arrows tipped with poison. Now Somali gangs, including many former soldiers, spray whole families of elephants with automatic-weapon fire. Not all Tsavo's poachers have been outsiders to the park. Some who are paid to protect the elephants -- wardens and rangers -- are also suspect. The evidence: Woodley and others have extracted .303-cal. bullets from carcasses. "The only people who use .303s are the rangers," he says. Numerous carcasses have been found near the rangers' headquarters. And when the park's patrol plane is grounded for inspection, the poachers quickly appear...
...going to ignore each other even though we're madly in love" scene with style and grace. Jack and Frank play the bickering brothers to a tee, and they even manage to get into a not-half-bad food fight in their hotel room. (They call a cease-fire when Jack picks up a whole pineapple and warns his brother, "Don't tempt me." Talk about deterrance...
Much too late the film touches on Jack's desire for the extreme, his love for jazz's fire and passion. At the end we are unsatisfied with the resolution of Jack's (and Suzie's) hope for sublimity while living in the world of the mundane...
Clark has drawn fire from students and faculty for his decision this summer to eliminate the school's public interest placement office in an effort to cut costs. Despite his promise to transfer the office's responsibilities to a general placement office, 1055 law students have signed a petition demanding that Clark restore the full-time public interest counselors...