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Bomber's Law by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; 296 pages; $22.50) would work superbly as a play, and if you typed it up in scenes and acts instead of chapters, that's what it would be. Scene 1 sets matters moving briskly, though without corpses or car chases: two...
Out of Newark, New Jersey, and up the west side of the Hudson River, three locomotives lug 63 flatbed freight cars -- almost a mile of Conrail train for United Parcel and the U.S. Postal Service, due in California in 72 hours. Engineer Jim Metzger, 42, flicks his eyes like beacons...
If Leakey regrets his decision, he will not say so. He figures his condition was so bad that it would have been difficult to move him much earlier anyway. Although he has been flat on his back for more than six weeks, he is in constant touch with his staff...
But that would take a measure of leadership and guts that are now nowhere to be seen.
Most of the movie eschews overt violence for its much more satisfying alternative -- the threat of violence. The guts and gore are seen mostly in the viewer's lurid imagination. That is why Jurassic Park slips so neatly into its PG-13 rating. "I do think this movie is inappropriate...