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Nader, mellower and a bit grayer than in his days as a corporate Goliath slayer, is optimistic that the tide will again turn...
...rolling hills of Ireland, where the film was shot. Nigel Terry (Arthur) is no Sean Connery, the parfit gentil knight of Robin and Marian, but he passes persuasively from innocence to kingship to the realization that immortality can be won only through a fatal joust with his son and slayer. Cherie Lunghi too closely resembles a Covent Garden flower child to bring Guenevere to mature life, but her callow modernity wreathes Excalibur in later ideals of post-courtly love. Nicholas Clay makes an athletic Lancelot: he could be a dashing soldier of fortune or a knight in stainless steel...
...meant that they were finally "scaling down" their search for the Ripper. The five-year man hunt has cost more than $8 million and included the questioning of some 300,000 persons, one of whom was Sutcliffe in 1977. Like the infamous "Jack the Ripper" of 1888, the Yorkshire slayer earned his nickname by murdering and mutilating female victims. "Jack," however, apparently stopped at five victims, less than half of the deadly baker's dozen attributed to the Yorkshire Ripper. Another difference is that, unlike Jack the Ripper's victims, who were all prostitutes, four of the Yorkshire...
...committee's findings on the King assassination are equally suspect. The report speaks of a "likelihood of conspiracy" Unking a St. Louis patent attorney, now dead, and several associates with James Earl Ray Jr., the convicted slayer of King. Maybe so, but the committee offers no proof...
...world." Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a late addition to Spenkelink's defense team, called the occasion "a tragic moment in American history" and gibed, "If you work at city hall you get voluntary manslaughter," a caustic reference to the lenient verdict against Dan White, the slayer of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk...