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Despite doggedly second-line direction, A Man Could Get Killed is almost salvaged by the gravelly glamour of Melina Mercouri, the resident adventuress who somehow plays every role as though she has just been ordered to quit port on the next steamer. Melina first appears in funeral garb, crying into her former paramour's bier while one black-olive eye winks out a thinly coded message to Garner. When her friends are in trouble, Melina growls: "Try the harbor master; he is in love with my aunt." When a search party orders her to take everything off, she starts...
...glorious part of the age of steam and the steamer trunk, and it was a remarkable performance. But not even old Karl Baedeker could have done it in today's Europe, although his descendants continue the guides competently enough. The Continent is simply changing too fast in too many directions for any single guidebook to keep up with it. There are 10,350 restaurants and 1,100 hotels in Paris alone, not to mention 110 nightclubs and 12,000 bars. Whether or not they could cover all the pertinent sights, smells and tastes, none of today's guides...
When, in 1840, Cunard established the first steamer passenger line in America, Boston was its natural choice of the terminus. In 1966, only 34 scheduled passenger ships will leave Boston Harbor and nearly all of these are cruises to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Gone too are the coastal shuttle boats to New York (remember Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8?) which did in a more leisurely age what the Logan shuttles do now. At every turn, Boston Harbor evokes its past, not in the solid romantic way of Beacon Hill, but in a mood of decline and acceptance...
...however, Lewenthal went to Europe to resume his career. For three years, he lived out of a suitcase and slept on park benches. Promised a teaching job in Rio de Janeiro, he wrangled free passage on a steamer only to find upon his arrival that the job was nonexistent. Destitute, he went from door to door offering piano lessons, finally saved enough money to return to the U.S. in 1961. Deciding "to get myself out of the clutches of life for a while," he immersed himself in the "Alkanian labyrinths...
...organization known as Any a Nya (Scorpion), armed with Communist machine guns smuggled in originally for Congolese Simbas and reinforced by fugitive Simbas, ambushes Arab patrols, murders suspected Arab sympathizers, and spreads havoc through most of the countryside. Last week the rebels announced that they had attacked a river steamer at Tawfigia and destroyed a company of government troops...