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...publicity-and confusion-surrounding the Williams investigation has been heightened by a dispute between the Atlanta police and the FBI. Local officials have accused FBI agents of bungling their initial encounter with the supposed suspect. On May 22, agents stopped Williams near the Chattahoochee River after hearing a suspicious splash in the waters, from which the bodies of several victims had previously been recovered. Williams, some local police charge, should have been brought downtown for questioning immediately. Instead, he was released...
...morning hours of May 22, after driving across a bridge on the Chattahoochee River. FBI agents observing the bridge had heard something fall into the water where the bodies of six of the 28 victims have been found. According to Williams, the authorities stopped and questioned him about the splash, asking, "Who did you throw off the bridge?" Williams' reply, according to police: "Garbage." The suspect's version: "I told them I had dropped nothing in the river...
...Swing. Splash. Surprise. No one was more surprised than First Lady Nancy Reagan, 59, at the successful christening of the 560-ft. guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Ticonderoga at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Said she: "All I could think of was 'Lord, I am going to go down in history with Mrs. Truman!' " First Lady Bess Truman had struck out when she tried to crack a champagne bottle against the nose of the C-54 U.S. Capitol in 1945. Though that plane got no kicks from champagne, this ship did. Nancy, a righty (natch), uncorked a swing...
...better late than never. No such comprehensive view of German art has ever been set before an American public; from the romantic visions and esoteric metaphors of painters like Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich in the first decades of the 19th century, to the robust dash and splash of Lovis Corinth at its end, there are 150 works by 30 artists, and they help fill a gaping hole in our sense of the actual patterns of European culture. The fact, to put it simply, is that German art got left out of American taste on 19th century matters...
This makes for a splendid premise, and a dramatic dilemma. Except for a few oafishly drawn media sharpies, everyone in Romero's Paisley pageant is so nice that no true conflict arises. The movie begins in a splash of delirious lyricism-King William (Ed Harris), naked, birching himself clean in a sylvan lake before mounting his trusty motorsteed-then bogs down in 145 minutes of psychological verismo. The writer-director wants to present rounded, sympathetic characters but never allows them to develop beyond the caricatures in Reel 1. Romero, whose early films displayed the carnographic brio...