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...means of flashbacks, Pope Joan correlates the legend with the life of the young evangelist: the nunnery is inter cut with a modern orphanage, Joan's monk father with a back-country Bible thumper, and so on. Invention frequently flags, and there are great barren stretches of the movie that contain no contemporary parallels whatever, presumably because the scenario could invent no 20th century equivalents for the Saxons or the intrigues of the papal court under Leo, who is zestfully portrayed by Trevor Howard...
...that the real reason? Italians suspected that the French President did not want to come to Rome lest he appear to be paying court to his hosts-a posture that would obviously be unacceptable for a man with Pompidou's ambition to be Europe's primus inter pares. Nevertheless, Leone and Andreotti did manage to come up with a sort of movable Chequers that brought Pompidou to three handsome villas in the Tuscan hills near Pisa-one for a lunch with Leone, one for the "friendly and private talks," and one for a night's lodging. Pompidou...
There are other weak links in Mills's tale, most notably Det. Butler. She is a gorgeous, ambitious and tough female cop who is just too surreal in her myriad attributes. Also, Mills employs an inter-Departmental report on the Lockley case as the vehicle for his story. He includes office memos, tapes interviews by the internal security office, and other "obtained" narratives such as a magazine article on Butler that never saw print. But despite his care in sticking to the format of a report, Mills slips into a trap posed by his own tight prose: no transcripts ever...
...recent interview. Bok described how his preconceptions of the job have altered with experience. He admitted that faced with Harvard's tiers of academic bureaucracy and its inter-disciplinary jealousies, he has found the implementation of academic change more frustrating than he expected...
...also something of a test, for the talks are the key to his policy of East-West détente. Brezhnev does not have an election in the fall -but he would face an even quicker verdict from his colleagues in the Politburo, of which he is primus inter pares, if the talks were a failure...