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Clarence Hook is a fanatical Christian soldier for whom sword and plowshare are already one. His answer to "Make love, not war" is "We make war out of love. And God allows it out of love. Only an animal kills without love." Many of Hook's men idolize him. So do the Camaguayan villagers; he buries their relatives who have been cold-bloodedly murdered by terrorists and tenderly ministers to their impoverished sick...
Ruses Aloft. While most of the youths stood guard over the 122 other passengers, the leader, 27-year-old Takamaro Tamiya, pushed aside the stewardesses, who were handing out hot towels, and made his way into the unlocked cockpit of the tri-jet Boeing 727. At sword's point, he ordered Captain Shinji Ishida to set a course for the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, 625 miles away. Using the public address mike, the skyjackers warned that they carried bombs and would blow up the plane if their orders were not obeyed. In their belts and sticking...
...Master Still Carries His Sword...
...worst moment as an actor was a long-ago scene as Prince Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV. After some lusty drinking and a prolonged period onstage, Burton wet his chain mail. He then played a duel scene with Sir Michael Redgrave, as Hotspur, and broke his sword. Forced to win the duel without a blade, he hoisted the bulky knight to his shoulder and tossed him across the stage. "Dear boy," said Sir Michael backstage, "I thought you were sweating rather more than usual...
...zooming face is the face of a small boy who has blamed his thumb with his own hammer. He tells Girl the obedient to come and they disappear miserably into the next small valley. Cast out of Eden over a little misunderstanding. And the angel has not a flaming sword but only love to offer them. As she starts barefoot after them, old Alfred whines and the angel tells him "Bad karma Alfred. You stay." He comes though, lacing himself in her footsteps all the way down the first barranca. The angel kicks him. Alfred howls...