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...undetected. Misinterpreted evidence can also lead to the innocent being punished. Even worse, people are sometimes jailed for crimes that never occurred. The classic example: when an alcoholic dies after a fight, the police often assume that the assault killed him, but a careful autopsy may show a lethal level of alcohol in the blood. Bungled investigations can also create lasting controversies. Mistakes in the autopsy of John F. Kennedy fueled charges of a conspiracy and cover...
...hear the clockwork sputtering inside the brawny breastplate of this week's heroids: Los Angeles supercop Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) in Lethal Weapon 2 and Her Majesty's secret servant James Bond (Timothy Dalton) in Licence to Kill. Both men are rogue avengers, out for bloody justice against cartels that have killed or threatened their partners and spouses. Both pictures, with their suavely depraved drug lords and curt disregard for constitutional safeguards, play like extended episodes of Miami Vice. Both scenarios choose their villains from the current list of least favored nations: South Africa in LW2, a thinly disguised Panama...
...intercept an alien aircraft that was entering West German airspace at 9:42 a.m. last Tuesday, they encountered an empty Soviet MiG-23 fighter. Flying at an altitude of nearly 40,000 ft., the plane was without a pilot, and its canopy was gone. For fear of creating lethal falling debris, officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization refrained from ordering the craft shot down and instead told the U.S. pilots to escort it out to open sea. But the MiG ran out of fuel near the Belgian town of Kortrijk and crashed into a house, killing a 19-year...
...despite Bond's pseudoretirement, he manages to retain the services of Q (Desmond Llewelyn), who supplies him with an array of lethal gadgets from exploding alarm clocks to signature rifles...
This grim fantasy is engendered by exposure, in rapid succession, to the films underlying those last two presold titles and by the prospect of The Karate Kid III, Lethal Weapon II, Nightmare on Elm Street V and, heaven forfend, Friday the 13th VIII. Not to mention James Bond umpty-ump. The basic criticism of sequels is as familiar as it is correct: they represent the triumph of commercial caution over creative daring...