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...good little British picture. But it is almost the least of its virtues. The mobsters force an alcoholic computer engineer named Hiller (played with a wonderfully watery passivity by Bernard Hill) to act as their "bellman," or alarm-system neutralizer. His only virtue is his devotion to his stepson (Kieran O'Brien), who has no name but the one we impute to him: True. He is a wise, sober child, spunky and devoted to the man who takes responsibility for him when both are deserted by the child's mother...
...heartening to point out that in the long and murky history of the Games things have looked considerably bleaker. For centuries after their founding, write John Kieran and Arthur Daley in The Story of the Olympic Games, the Olympics provided "the great peaceful events of civilization." Yet eventually, as Greece gave way to Rome, "they lost the spirit of the older days. Winners were no longer contented with a simple olive wreath as a prize. They sought gifts and money. [Heartened yet?] The games, instead of being patriotic and religious festivals, became carnivals, routs and circuses." Halted by the Roman...
...looked like a bomb went off in there [the building]," said Kieran Brennan, a private contractor working for the Robert Banker Real Estate firm...
...Kieran Kenny, then 17 years old and an unemployed surveyor trainee from industrial Wigan in Britain's Lancashire, must have touched the heart of someone at Buckingham Palace when he wrote a plaintive letter to Queen Elizabeth II in 1980, asking for a job. Within weeks Kenny was hired as a stores (pantry) clerk and assigned lodgings in the staff quarters. Like all employees of the royal household, Kenny had to pledge in writing never to reveal to outsiders what goes on inside the royal residences...
DIED. John Kieran, 89, naturalist author and erudite answer man on the popular radio and television show Information Please; in Rockport, Mass...