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...best measure of this movie's merits is that the cross-reference that springs most readily to mind is another well-made current movie. But everyone knows The Fugitive derives its title, protagonist and basic situation from the 1960s television series in which David Janssen, as the luckless Kimble, was pursued across many years and many states by Barry Morse's implacable detective. It was Les Miserables in prime time, and that overtone is lost in this adaptation, which compresses the pursuit and confines it mostly to Chicago. But the tension and realism that result from permitting Kimble less running...
Paul Lincoln, as Isabella's lonely and luckless suitor Taddeo, conveys the essence of hid conceited character perfectly. Although his voice was not spectacular (he was rumored to have been ill on Sunday), his excellent positioning, mime and gesturing complemented the humour show of Stevens and Ames. In the finale, Lincoln finishes the opera with a show of vocal stamina indicative of ali of the leads...
...more than 200 Haitians at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are also shunning food in protest. Meanwhile, bad news keeps rolling in for Haitians. In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees traveling around the island) sank during a rainstorm. Only about 300 people are known to have survived, though more might have escaped...
What he gradually learns is that four of the five, excluding Bunny, have already killed, in the course of what they are pleased to call a Greek bacchanal. A luckless farmer strayed into the path of their late-night revels, and, chitons aflap, fueled by booze and drugs, they butchered him. For Charles it was a doomed awakening of conscience. For Henry it was a revelation of quite another sort. Before, he explains to the perpetually horrified Richard, he "lived too much in the mind." After, "I know that I can do anything that I want...
...G.O.P. nomination time in August, he will be the fifth oldest of the 40 men who have been U.S. Presidents, passing the luckless William Henry Harrison, who was 68 when he got chilled at his Inauguration, caught pneumonia and expired after only 31 days on the job. Some said he deserved it: his speech ran an hour and 45 minutes...