Word: lago
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...later, terrorists struck in Madrid in what outgoing Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo called "a provocation, not only against the armed forces but against the Spanish people who voted massively for harmony." Two men mounted on motorbikes used submachine guns to riddle the official car of Major General Victor Lago Román, 63, who, after the dismissal of right-wing officers last year, was named commander of the Brunete armored division that guards Madrid. The general was killed instantly and his driver gravely wounded. The attackers escaped, but credit for the assassination was claimed by members of the military...
...killing, John Paul II telephoned his condolences to King Juan Carlos. He later told an audience in Toledo that "violence is not the way to the solution of problems and is always anti-Christian." González attended a religious service at the military headquarters where General Lago's body was lying in state. He warned that the Socialist government, which will be formed on Dec. 9, will not be provoked. Said he: "We shall use all means at our disposal in the constitution to eradicate terrorism...
...strangulating bureaucratic maze. Roote (George Martin), the government official in command, is a slightly dotty ex-colonel given to gung-ho sloganizing, lapses of memory and bouts of paranoia. His second in command, Gibbs (Richard Kavanaugh), lusts for Roote's post, is as obsequiously duplicitous as lago and possesses the mental cast of a Nazi stormtrooper. Miss Cutts (Amy Van Nostrand), the head nurse, is one of Pinter's Venus's-flytraps. She is Roote's mistress, sleeps with Gibbs and toyingly teases Lamb (Dan Butler), a naive underling whom Gibbs brings to slaughter...
More Kagemusha than war lord, the performance lacks daring and danger--lago wins points on evergy alone. When a reading dies work--his poignant, "the pity of it lago; oh, Iago, the pity of it," for example--the moment is improperly led into, susteained and followed through, so it doesn't reverberate as it must. When Jones does attempt something strenuous, it comes across ludicrous and perfunctory: His fit of epilespy suggests T.V.S. Ginsu chef after accidentally dismembering himself...
...other hand, he and his fight designer B. H. Barry could make a grand horror film. Bary has devised some grisly and hair-raising swordplay, the air aswish with deadly blades as a drunken, robotized Cassio slashes anything on all sides; or the stunning moment when lago plants a kiss fully on Rodrigo's lips and knife between his ribs (Plummer is a murderouly bisexual monster). Then there are images worthy of Halloween: Desdomona, tiny and exposed before her night table, singing a bed-time song, with Amelia's sudden entrances from the shadows creating delightful frissons; Desdemona draped horizontally...