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...that picture lay in its relocation of that classic device of the horror genre, the haunted house. Instead of being a Gothic pile isolated on a bleak moor, it was a spaceship visiting an unwelcoming planet in an obscure corner of the universe. But the situation was the immemorial one: a monster, in this case an alien life-form requiring human hosts for gestation, is stalking the spaceship's endless, ill-lighted corridors, picking off victims one by one. But there was only one creature, six frightened earthlings and little more subtext (or, for that matter, dialogue) to the film...
Despite the differing expectations, there was a unanimous feeling that the session had come not a moment too soon. The images of starving Ethiopian children that first flashed across television screens more than a year ago continue to haunt and outrage people the world over. A wellspring of sympathy gave rise last year to Live Aid, the globally televised rock concert aimed at putting an end to famine, and last week to Sport Aid, a 78-country marathon to raise more funds...
...Falklands War came back to haunt both sides in the conflict last week. In Buenos Aires three former junta members were convicted of bungling the ten-week conflict that ended in humiliating defeat for Argentina. Former President Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who launched the war, was sentenced by the country's highest military court to twelve years in prison. The navy and air force chiefs at the time received 14- and eight-year sentences...
...realize what a jerk Fielding Pierce really is, but it is difficult to tell, since the snake has all the lines. Further muddying the issue of whether a character like this should be a Congressman is the reappearance of Sarah Williams, who, dead or alive, certainly comes to haunt the candidate. Spencer, 40, struggles with an ambitious question: How can people work for good in a world of evil? Unfortunately, with friends like Fielding and Sarah, the causes of righteousness and coherent narratives seem curiously irrelevant...
...Engineers' trouble with sacrifice bunts returned to haunt them in the closing frames of the nightcap...