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...give director Edward Zwick and his fellow screenwriters, Lawrence Wright and Menno Meyjes, credit for complicating their material, and therefore our responses to it, in ways that go well beyond the demands of the genre. They give us an FBI agent in charge of the case--played by that paragon of sexy stalwartness, Denzel Washington--whose heroism lies largely in his ability to reconsider hasty conclusions. They provide him with an assistant of Arab descent (a quietly smoldering Tony Shalhoub), caught in a conflict between duty and disgust when the soldiery snatches his son because he happens to match...
Tale spinners Spielberg and Lucas (who devised the story with Menno Meyjes) and screenwriter Jeffrey Boam were obviously brimming to work variations on the nearly $700 million-grossing theme. For openers, they toss teenage Indy (River Phoenix) into a nest of cave robbers, a lion's den and a snake pit, thereby explaining, with an economy that Feuillade and Freud might admire, the origins of their hero's hat, his favorite weapon and his fear of serpents. The movie's creators have not grown tired. They keep the action cracking as smartly as Indy's bullwhip...
...Canada where the church members decided that they would look for a new promised land, a remote country in which to found a farming colony. Such migrations are nothing new to the Mennonites, who number about 600,000 worldwide. Founded in 1525 in Zurich, Switzerland, and named for Menno Simons, a Roman Catholic priest who became their most famous leader, the group insisted on voluntary adult baptism, which earned it the hostility of both Catholics and established Protestant churches. Devout and pacifist, the Mennonites repeatedly had to flee persecution; some groups from Germany and The Netherlands ultimately migrated to Russia...
...peace churches came to this conviction through Bible-based, turn-the-other-cheek idealism. The more than 100,000 plain-living U.S. Mennonites, whose best-known sect is the Amish farmers of Pennsylvania and Ohio, take their name from Menno Simons, one of the leaders of the Reformation's Anabaptist movement. Because they sought to abandon all church structure and live simply by the Gospel alone, the early German Mennonites were killed or outlawed by Catholics and Protestants alike. A century later, England's George Fox and the Friends (now 122,000 strong in the U.S.) were persecuted...
...DESIRING, by Menno Gallie (192 pp.; Harper; $3.50) is a sort of border ballad about the frontier between England and Wales. Few Americans think of that line as much of a barrier, but to Griff Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves...