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...exaggerated GQ-Cosmo style closeups, ST. ELMO'S FIRE (Sack Charles) overexposes itself as the vampire of the summer's lingering movie releases in two ways. For the obvious, whatever thoughts may lie within the well-posed actors' heads photograph as lamely as Dracula's own mug shot. Simply put, "Assume the Missionary Position," invites something other psychological speculation...
...ELMO'S FIRE...
Meet the Not-Quite-Ready-for-Yup-piedom Players. They are friends from college days who hang out at St. Elmo's Bar, which provides the movie with a title and a metaphor. Do the flashes of feeling they experience carry genuine heat or are they as meaningless as the flashes of light that sometimes play about ships and planes in the night...
...little of both. The virtue and the defect of this essentially good-natured movie is that its script, by Joel Schumacher and Carl Kurlander, does not play a steady light on any of its several stories, but bounces erratically from one to another like -- well, like St. Elmo's fire. The shifting prevents the movie from getting bogged in the banal, but it also prevents it from achieving much emotional resonance...
...believe Walker was a Soviet spy for 17 years, trading in top- secret naval communications. As the magnitude of his betrayal unfolded last week, intelligence officials speculated that Walker's espionage may rank with the most damaging in U.S. history. If the charges against Walker prove true, said Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations, "this would represent a breach of security as serious as any I can recall...