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Feliks, the son of a poor country priest elects to assassinate Prince Orlov. The "anarchist chappie," as he is called, moves close to his prey by captivating the susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively...
...fighting priest called it highway robbery, pointing to President Eliot's promise way back in 1903 to maintain the building forever. He says that pulled every influential string he could get his hands on, and that the administration acquiesced...
...museum's roller-coaster history means a great deal to Carney Gavin. A bluff, bulky, gigantically affable man, he makes friends--and remembers their names--with instinctive ease. He saw that his cause carried little weight among the administrators: he had no money. So Gavin, a practicing Catholic priest, turned to his last resource: people. He marshalled a vast army of eager volunteers out of thin air, and by the mid-'70s, hundreds of area professionals and students were helping him put his museum back together again. He once even piled the entire Harvard football team into a truck...
...screenplay for Vegas, having done four motion pictures together previously, including the film version of her novel Play It As It Lays. Their most recent joint effort, True Confessions, based on his book of the same name, starred Robert Duvall and Robert DeNiro as brothers, one a priest, the other a police officer. DeNiro, working on Raging Bull when True Confessions was being cast, accepted the lead after 13 other actors refused it. Dunne, however, professes great satisfaction with the movie, and refers to DeNiro affectionately as "Bobby...
...voice shifts from omniscient narration to eavesdrop on Shea's thoughts and colorful dialogue. Dunne makes us painfully aware of his hero's growing depression as he begins to believe that he is trapped--by what his girlfriend labels the self-fulfilling prophecies of despair and his priest would call the wrath of a vengeful...