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...black con with the spirit of a peacock (Eddie Murphy of Saturday Night Live.) The former springs the latter from prison believing he can help trace a psychopathic former associate who has become a cop killer. There ensues a long, often well-staged but improbable chase through San Francisco. The sequence is enlivened by some reasonably well-written dialogue, as if Director Hill had revived The Odd Couple and told Felix and Oscar to go ahead and talk dirty if they want...
...Nagy explains that the classics are much more than just well-written literature: "If you focus in on Homeric poetry, one of the oldest forms of poetry in Greece, what you really have is the survival of the fittest, to put it cruelly. And you ask yourself, why did the Illiad and the Odyssey survive, and why did they become the epic for the Greek city-states. What was in them that made them such a universal expression of what it means to be Greek as opposed to barbarian. They are an expression of what it means to be educated...
...Knocks for Knoxville" [May 3] was a well-written analysis of the 1982 World's Fair, except for one error. I was not asked to develop a "symbolic tower," nor have I had anything to do with the design of the structure. I have been associated with the job as the project architect involved in the drawing and construction phases only...
...book em Danno approach to television police drama. There's nothing wrong with such shows (at least compared to what they compete with except that they have so little to do with the way the FBI actually works Garrow's book, on the other hand, although perhaps too well-written and well-documented, would make an excellent pilot episode for Hoover's FBI. The Real Story...
...Gramps, there are other fine paperbacks. The People's Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau (who else?) is another oversized collection of past cartoons; these excerpts from 1978-80 are particularly interesting because they are accompanied by previously muted comments from the satirist. Poland: Solidarity: Walesa is a well-written study of Poland during recent years, including a discussion of the current strife. A host of photographs accompanies the authoritative writing of three veteran journalists...