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...country's onetime Chief Executive is mired in a widening scandal that has already claimed several top aides and threatens to force his own resignation. It is a tale of taps on journalists' phones, of a secret tape recording of a political discussion, apparent conspiracies and controversy involving high-ranking public figures. And then there is dogged investigative reporting and at least one "Deep Throat." Sound familiar? Well, yes, but this is Dublin 1983, not Washington 1973. The central character is former Prime Minister Charles Haughey; the scandal is Liffeygate, after the River Liffey that bisects Ireland...
...found that Doherty, in an effort to stem embarrassing reports about internal party squabbles, had placed bugs on the phones of two of Dublin's top political reporters. It was also discovered that Haughey's Deputy Prime Minister, Ray MacSharry, had borrowed a police recorder to tape a private conversation with a Fianna Fail dissident. His aim, it turned out, was not to carry out government business but to uncover an anti-Haughey conspiracy within the party...
Harvard undergraduates accustomed to unraveling a gnarl of red tape at registration will find their sojourn in Memorial Hall considerably shorter today thanks to a revised policy by the registrar's office...
...sitcom of the same name, it would be just the sort of hangout where Democratic Congressman Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr., 70, might down a brew at the end of a rough day. After hearing that he thought so too, the producers invited O'Neill to tape a cameo appearance. For his TV acting debut, if one doesn't count the House's televised debates, O'Neill is hunched over the bar when George Wendt, 34 (the Speaker's favorite character in the series), plunks down beside him and heaves into a tirade...
...offers mortal man the chance to play God. That is all an audience really wants out of a movie like this. There is a bit of Walter Mitty in each of us that yearns to travel back to yesterday and dazzle primitive folk with airplanes, calculators, Bic fighters and tape decks. Unfortunately TimeRider won't take us there...