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...through an intensive course of reading and interviews on various aspects of nuclear war. To summarize and synthesize what passes for expertise on the subject, he drew on a wide range of sources: theorists who specialize in this modern-day branch of eschatology, like the Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn (who wrote a book of his own 20 years ago, Thinking About the Unthinkable); physicists who explain how the bomb works; military men who explain how it might be used; and physicians and other scientists who speculate on what might happen when it is exploded. Schell concludes that once...
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...
Assistant to the Treasurer Herman M. Anderson, who earned $8010 in 1979, received $43.431 last year. But Rosen said that Anderson's 1981 salary actually reflects a year-and-a-half of work...
...Leon MacDonell, 53, of Corning, N.Y., the leading expert, is now sought out in more than 100 homicide cases a year. At the trial of Jean Harris last year he tried to persuade the jury-unsuccessfully-that blood marks jibed with Harris' claim that the shooting of Dr. Herman Tarnower occurred accidentally during a struggle...
...Christiane and her boyfriend Detlev (Thomas Haustein) spiral into the lower depths, the movie becomes as exhausting and repetitive as a reprobate's confession. But this is Screenwriter Herman Weigel's point. There is no drama in this drama-no rush, no reason, no alternative, no future. The junkie's world is not a series of adrenaline highs and remorseful lows; it is one endless anguish. The victims are zombies, gray-faced, living dead. Director Ulrich Edel hews to a semidocumentary style, but his message is out of the classic German monster movies: There is a golem...