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Precisely what Robert Mitchum is doing in Japan becomes a sticky point. Mitchum plays, rather snugly, a former private eye from California named Harry Kilmer whose pal Tanner (Brian Keith) calls an old marker on him. Tanner has promised to sell the Yakuza some guns but failed to deliver. In reprisal, the Yakuza has kidnaped his daughter and is threatening to kill...
...happens, Kilmer was stationed in Japan during the American occupation and supported a Japanese girl whose brother, thought to have been killed in the war, returned home and became Yakuza...
Though he has been out of the organization for a decade, the brother is compelled by honor to help Kilmer. The Yakuza is much concerned with these matters of duty. The obligation is a burden, but the brother takes a grave pride in helping his sister's old lover. What is canny in this movie is the way these various obligations are made to snake around each other, then abruptly thrust inward to threaten and destroy. Unfortunately, these serpentine strands also cause a great deal of confusion and hob ble the movie just when it should be moving briskly...
...musician. But no one has come closer to unearthing civilization's lost chord than Anne D. Kilmer, who is a professor of Assyriology at the University of California at Berkeley. After five years' study of clay tablets discovered in an excavation of the city of Ugarit (now Ras Shamra, Syria), which flourished more than 3,000 years ago, Kilmer deciphered the thin cuneiform script as the words and musical symbols of an ancient song. Older by 1,400 years than the 400 B.C. papyrus that contains music for Euripides' play Orestes, Kilmer's finding...
Last week, with the help of Musicologist Richard L. Crocker, who sang and played the song, and Physics Professor Robert R. Brown who built a replica of an eleven-string Sumerian lyre on which Crocker accompanied himself, Kilmer's discovery was unveiled at the university's Wheeler Auditorium. It was a short monophonous melody with a delicate Oriental redolence, much like a lullaby or love song. "The song appears to tell of love among the divinities, but we have such a limited vocabulary in Hur-rian, so far about the only words we know are father, love...