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...MARQUIS DE SADE should be alive today. DePalma and DeSade would make a brilliant director-screenwriter team. In Brian DePalma's latest thriller, The Fury, Fiona Lewis plays a high-class, whorish British bitch-doctor whose titillating, condescending blue eyes make you want to punch her in the nose. Hitchcock would have let Cary Grant do just that--assuming that we in the audience are all voyeurs--and in his later days would have sent her to his legendary shower. DePalma, characteristically, goes further. In one of many representative sequences in The Fury, Robin (Andrew Stevens), Lewis's jealous lover...
...film brings together assorted plot strands, the principal one involving Kirk Douglas as a former intelligence man, whose son, Robin, has been abducted by his former organization, presumably to be used as some kind of secret weapon (he makes foreign presidents' noses bleed--just kidding; actually, he can marshall quite a fury when mad). Douglas must elude the network of agents controlled by John Cassavetes, whose arm he crippled during the terrorist raid that begins the film, in which Robin is captured. Enter Gillian (Amy Irving), another telekinetic whom Cassavetes is grooming at a parapsychic institute to join Robin...
While Jamie Werly has gone on to seek his fortune with the Yankees' farm system, Park has secured the one lefty pitcher he desperately needed last season to help out Paul McOsker (4-1, 2.49 ERA). He's got two more portsiders this year, senior Billy Bradshaw, whose persistence has finally been rewarded with this season's promotion to the varsity, and fireballing freshman Jim Keyte, who may be a brown-haired McOsker...
...disclosed his income, it may have come as a shock to his poor people's alliance. Finch is hardly a working man. He is a wealthy trial lawyer, whose income by the most conservative estimates was $60,000 the year before his election...
...done (or not done) and try to say, for optimism's sake, that it was good. Instead, we can expose him as what he is--a political animal of the worst sort, one who knows how to appeal to people's emotions rather than to their senses, one whose actions indicate only a desire for self-perpetuation, a follower elected to a position of leadership...