Word: lockley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corruption of a good young cop: how his idealism is twisted and turned against him. Done with the sort of street intelligence apparently alien to everyone involved with Report to the Commissioner, such a theme could have made a strong movie. As played-badly-by Michael Moriarty, Beauregard ("Bo") Lockley is less a cop of high principle than one of low IQ. With no perceptible help from Director Milton Katselas (Forty Carats), Moriarty cooks up a caricature of a sad-sack flatfoot, slow on the draw and even slower on wit. Although excuses are supplied for his presence...
...PRIVATE LIFE OF THE RABBIT by R.M. LOCKLEY 152 pages. Macmillan...
...costumes. Only occasionally do the principals seem to act as if they really had long ears and cottontails-and at those junctures the book ceases to be Water ship Down and becomes, instead, a little 1964 volume entitled The Private Life of the Rabbit by R.M. Lockley...
...hardly a case of plagiarism. Adams liberally sprinkles references to Lockley's book in his bestseller, and his introduction to Private Life's first American edition is pure hero worship. Yet the disciple never really followed the work, which scorns sentimentality and shuns anthropomorphism. Lockley was apparently born with a seventh sense -of wonder-and has expended most of it on rabbits, which he has studied in every imaginable sort of enclosure, even including a real burrow with specially installed infra-red lighting and glass sides. Thus observed, the symbols of timidity are revealed as citizens...
...Rabbits are so human," begins Lockley in an echo of Beatrix Potter. Then he brings his audience up short with a question behaviorists have yet to answer...