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Handle With Care brings on a bunch of them, including a bigamous truck driver whose two wives discover his double life and join forces to, in effect, punish him with kindness; a horny youth and a seemingly respectable woman who use their rigs for mutually masturbatory conversations; a radio priest and a radio fascist who employ the air waves to peddle their doctrines. In the classic manner of exploitation pictures, the movie moves fast and speaks bluntly. It does not linger long over anyone's sense of anomie or alienation, but the panel-cartoon style i. effective. It is enough...
...take their photographs. So Booth searches for another way to reach the public, another way for the movement to get the attention it needs. He decides they will steal the remains of the Unknown Soldier of World War II, as ransom for the freedom of an activist priest convicted in the murder of an FBI agent...
...call Godey's latest book simply a work of fiction would be misleading. Although none of the major characters really exists, there are striking similarities between most of them and actual political figures. For example, Francis Rowan, the priest whose freedom Ken Booth seeks by stealing the Unknown Soldier, seems clearly patterned after religious activists of the '60s such as Daniel Berrigan and James Groppi--and in fact, Berrigan is compared to Rowan by name...
...statehood has set up the Palestine National Council, a 293-person parliament whose members range from fedayeen and delegates from refugee groups to students and intellectuals. The council includes such disparate personalities as Abu Daoud, accused of masterminding the 1972 Munich massacre, Father Ibrahim Ayad, a Roman Catholic priest, and Edward Said, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian forebears who is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Between the National Council sessions, the P.L.O. gets strategy guidance from a 40-member Central Council, which is also notorious for rancorous disputes...
...swept him to superstardom. His way of crooning was, as well, exactly attuned to the easygoing personality he projected onstage and in most of his 60 movies. His style was so relaxed-almost sleepy-that it was hard to remember he won an Oscar for skillful acting as a priest in Going My Way (1944). Only at golf, which he often appeared to take more seriously than his career, did he ever publicly show tension. Indeed, when Bing Crosby died of a heart attack at 74 last week, nobody who knew him well could be surprised that the end came...