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There is no more assiduous American tracer of missing monsters than Rines, whose 1975 photographs purporting to show a huge underwater creature in Loch Ness bolstered the convictions of both scoffers and believers (TIME, Jan. 12). The credentials of Rines' academy have been questioned by some-it has no actual office and no university affiliation-but several esteemed scientists are on the team Rines has assembled at Drumnadrochit...
...young couple, Nick (Richard Kelton) and Honey (Maureen Anderman), who join them for a savage 2 a.m.-to-5 a.m. session of show-and-tell are simply deployed by George and Martha as fodder for their internecine warfare. The words are tracer bullets and the drinks are hemlock, but the blood lust has an almost tonic ebullience...
TRAVESTIES. Playwright Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers) spews wit, wordplay, paradox and thought like tracer bullets, and, in a performance of indelible virtuosity, John Wood sees that every bullet is dead on target...
...base runners sass the Duke relentlessly, and so does his apoplectic catcher, "Beanie" Maligima (Lou Crincuolo). The manager (Mitchell Jason) tries to psych the Duke back to his earlier form, but to no avail. A home run ball zooms over his head like a tracer bullet and murders him on the spot...
...capital, which was rocked by mortar, bazooka and howitzer fire as rebel commandos attacked army and navy installations. One exchange caught a group of 30 Americans, including the local consul, in a social club; they gamely sang John Brown's Body and other traditional songs as tracer bullets arced overhead. A U.S. communications base was hit in another assault. Throughout the week, Ethiopian planes bombed and strafed guerrilla concentrations and mud-hut villages suspected of supporting the rebels. By week's end, according to some accounts, as many as 2,000 people had been killed...