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...stripe. There are no accidental effects. Like Vasarely, Riley prefers to have her work done by assistants from a preplanned sketch, with every color shift worked out in advance. Yet the way the paintings work on the eye is unpredictable, and almost baffles analysis. As Art Critic Bryan Robertson put it, "We are creatures of habit and rarely fully stretched. Riley's paintings are alive with potentiality; they disrupt visual complacency and do not provide us with any opportunity for evasion or rest...
...only in the sudden death of a casual acquaintance that Locke sees a chance to escape. Robertson had told Locke he was simply "on business" in this unlikely location. There is a physical resemblance between the two men, and when Locke discovers Robertson dead of a heart attack, he stares at him like a man at his own funeral. Then, after a time, he puts on Robertson's blue shirt and changes the photographs on both their passports. He leaves Africa with a new life...
Besides the passport, Locke has Robertson's engagement book and his plane ticket with a Munich airport locker number scrawled on its face...
...begins to follow Robertson's future with no knowledge of his past. He keeps the appointment in Munich and discovers that Robertson was an arms trafficker, running guns to the rebels that Locke had tried to interview. As Robertson, Locke becomes active, a participant in history rather than a recorder of it. But he remains irresolute in his new identity. The masquerade of rebirth is only a stalling action. And as the film's last scene reveals, he makes himself a willing accomplice in Robertson's own destiny...
...Encyclopedia. Seven hundred twenty-three home runs; 895 miles below sea level-these are the replies such works elicit from the reader. The rest is merely a salaam to accuracy and arcana. Joining the shelf of unique reference books is another first: the first Book of Firsts by Patrick Robertson. A British civil servant, indefatigable researcher and humorist very much manque, Robertson has highly individual criteria for celebrity. Not for him the Joe Namaths, Henry Kissingers or Valerie Perrines of this world. The Robertson laurels go to "Manchester Jack," the first lion tamer (1835); M. Jolly-Bellin, first dry cleaner...