Word: neill
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Cambridge and Harvard officials yesterday lamented the passing of Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr., a wellknown Cantabrigian Democrat whose political career began in North Cambridge and culminated with a decade as speaker of the House...
Friends expected Navy Lieut. (J.G.) Alton Lee Grizzard, 24, to be an admiral one day. Last week he was shot four times: once in each leg, once in the abdomen and, finally, once in the head. Classmates worshipped Ensign Kerryn O'Neill, 21, an honors student and a track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She was found not far from Grizzard, curled in a fetal position. She had been shot at close range in the back of the head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis...
...heart can be an enemy of promise, undoing even the most disciplined of lives -- as the elite community of sailors based in Coronado, California, found out last week. Smith and O'Neill had been fiances since her senior year at Annapolis. Two days before the murder, however, she broke off their engagement. Smith then sent a 13-page letter begging her to reconsider. They were seen arguing on Tuesday evening, just hours before the killing. She left that quarrel in tears. At about 1:45 a.m., Smith reached O'Neill's sixth-floor apartment at the bachelor officers' quarters...
What remains is a trail of suddenly hollow accomplishments: Smith chosen "best all around" by his high school class; Grizzard's passing for 12 touchdowns in his last year at Annapolis; O'Neill's 12 varsity letters. And what did O'Neill and Smith break up over? In the Los Angeles Times, Coronado police cited witnesses who said, "They had different ideas about their future." Now there is no future...
Though his New Zealand accent wobbles a bit at times, Harvey Keitel is, as usual, excellent. He makes a potentially unlikable and thorny man human and sympathetic. Sam Neill, who originally wanted to play the part of Baines, is particularly fine in the role of Stewart, a good man who loses his head because of jealousy and passion. Here Neill has a role that is considerably meatier than the paleontologist he played in "Jurassic Park," and he lives up to the possibilities of the role...