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...siren screaming, a grim-faced detective whizzes around a corner and tears through a fruit stand, sending cantaloupes flying. A dozen red lights and near-collisions later, he finally forces the villain into an alley and arrests...
There is in that tangle of confused emotions the stuff of tragedy, and the film's chief flaw is that it veers suddenly from the grim direction in which it seemed to be heading and brings all the CBers together in a reconciliatory effort to rescue the old man. The sequence is an obvious effort to regain the sympathy of the CB audience, showing them as socially useful citizens, but they?and everyone else?will have long since discerned the movie's true view of their world. The question is whether the rest of the world will care enough about...
Photographers Catherine Leroy and Henri Bureau happened to be in Mogadishu on assignment for TIME when the hijacked plane arrived there from Southern Yemen early Monday morning. That day, they photographed the grim scene at the airport as the body of the slain pilot was removed from the plane. They then decided to wait around at the field, on a hunch that Flight 181's four-day odyssey was about to reach a climax. Reports Leroy: "We knew something was coming up at 1:30 a.m. when the Somali police pushed us to a corner of the airport right...
Some students of terrorism believe that Haddad was the mastermind behind the skyjacking of both the JAL plane last month and Lufthansa Flight 181. Even if that is not the case, he has more than enough grim incidents to his discredit, including the 1968 skyjacking of a Rome-Tel Aviv El Al flight and the 1970 skyjacking of four passenger jets, three of which were later blown up in the Jordanian desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar has narrative lapses, jerky editing and confusing fantasy sequences that look like Ken Russell outtakes. Brooks' idea of style is to shoot Theresa in bright sunlight when she is being a good schoolteacher and in grim shadows when she is bedding down with her rough pickups. Though the movie was shot in color, the director's vision acknowledges only blacks and whites...