Word: fletcherizers
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...piece of paper. Brittan had been delivering a report on the peaceful conclusion to the siege of St. James's Square, where two weeks earlier an unidentified gunman inside the Libyan embassy had fired an automatic weapon at a crowd of Libyan dissidents outside, killing Constable Yvonne Fletcher and wounding eleven demonstrators. After glancing quickly at the message, Brittan declared that police had a few moments earlier found handguns and ammunition in the vacated embassy. More significant, he also announced the discovery of "firearms residue," on a carpet, as well as a spent cartridge case near the upstairs window...
...Commons statement, Brittan disclosed that the government had narrowed its list of suspects in Constable Fletcher's murder down to two of the 30 Libyans in the embassy. Nonetheless, he emphasized, there was insufficient proof to name the killer and, in any event, the suspect would have been able to claim diplomatic immunity from prosecution. Brittan announced that the government would be taking steps to restrict the entry of Libyan citizens into the country and to keep closer tabs on the 6,500 already there. In addition, the government is expected to take a careful look...
...that occurred on board the H.M.S, Bounty some 300 years ago has always come from the well-known novel Mutiny on the Bounty--which has twice been enacted on film already. In both film versions, the tyrannical Captain Bligh provokes a rebellion aboard his ship, led by the romantic Fletcher Christian, s the ship is returning home after spending some months in Tahiti on a mission for King George...
...plot are woven in between scenes of island life or storm scenes at sea, and as a result the story plays second-fiddle to the settings. We never truly get to know the characters, who seem tremendously inactive but yet paradoxically provoke tremendous dramatic actions. Mel Gibson's Fletcher Christian comes across as a rather weak-willed character, who leads the mutiny because he wants to return to his Tahitian princess. He is given little opportunity to do anything except stand around looking gorgeous; we are never given a chance to see what motivates his actions. Why, for instance, does...
...keep trying they are going to get it right one of these decades. In 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty unquestionably belonged to Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh. The perverse joy that grand actor took in his character's sadism entirely dominated Clark Gable's conventionally heroic Fletcher Christian. In 1962, when Marlon Brando came on board for a star trip, his Mr. Christian took the helm, dramatically speaking, long before his character, leading the mutineers, had seized it. Though Brando was chastised by critics for his excesses, there was something brave in his giddy decision to play...