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-I En tertninmetiT 'Sudden lm| 1 j^gBpsfefei^TOf4^^^tKS^^^g^Cl^^?-ag.a^;^^^ "'Mates my Jtoy* Clint Eastwood stars in the latest Dirty Hi 'Under the Blood F Latest U2 By Maria Baens Lead Singer Bono marches holding a whit of the drums. Suddenly, he climbs precarioi backdrop carrying- the symbol of U2's 1983 up before the awed eyes of rock-and-roll spe ned move. A dangerous solitary deed. It without such thrills, people are saying that I bands of 1983. The band opens with majestic drumming i exults, "This is Gloria " to the cheering cro orado. He spouts out loud in Latin "Gloria Exult Dei." The crowd chants along with t boy. The result is soulful. The Edge's strident guitar reverberates precipe alit with three torches. The album co sky cloaked about the gathered crowd. Buckley's C entertaining By Chris Handal In "The Story of Henri Tod," readers are presented another entertaining chapter in tVio \i/nr?lrl f a William 1? Purtl/lmr UVVVtUlllg IA7 FT IU1UII1 A UUV/I\XCJ Jr. '* This novel marks the fifth Blackford Oakes spy thriller by Buckley, who has also written several non-fiction books and is the publisher of the conservative National Review magazine. Each of Oakes' adventures have been set against the backdrop of the cold war between the U.S. and USSR and with each adventure, the reader is presented Buckley's thoughts on East-West relations. THIS TIME Oakes, the Yale graduate who now works for the CIA, finds himself in West Berlin shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall. Oakes' mission is to discover Soviet intentions in the area, and in this capacity he naefcts Henri Tod, a charismatic young irtfrn who leads a group of German dissidents known as the Bruderschaft. _The action is complicated by a pair of care-free East German lovers, one of V-? n ?r\rvy\n r? f /\ f Aitf Via WIIUIM I lrljf|fT>I lo IAJ UIU IIC^U^W VI W1C 0 leader of East Germany, and a plot by the KGB to trap Tod by using bait it knows he cannot resist. Although "The Story of Henri Tod" is a generally well-written and engaging thriller, the novel is marred by several inconsistencies. FIRST, A few chapters in the novel are devoted to President John Kennedy's lact' pro' irry movie, "Sudden Impect." led Sky' : release This i e flag to the robust beat album < isly up to the high stage flurry < tour, and hoists the flag "under eta tors. It is an unplan- Year's causes uproar. Even 12 is one of the best live THE hilaratii ? US Festival, 1983 pulsatej With ind the Irishman Bono somethi airr) of D/\n1/a TTU at 1WU JLVW/AO, VU1" DUIlUf VI in Dei Domini; Gloria The pac he rock-and-roll choir- side wh the win* through the red rock "40," ver pictures a fiery red claimed and pat! old War I, but coi thoughts on the situation in V For some reason Buckley sw the third person to first with r transition: "John Fitzgerald Kennedy Oval Officii. He had one hou would need to go upstairs to d state dinner for what's-his-nar hypocrite. Dulles told me maybe forty, maybe fify millic always poor-mouthing about 1 Second, early in the novel E dialogue rather than narratio readers of the situation betwe West Germany in 1961, and th Oakes asking the'stilted ques know,' said Blackford, Ti forgotten ? I was a student Why did the Allies go along \ tion that East Germany was country.'" It is unlikley Oakes would n< information, especially since i "Stained Glass" his mission \ man trying to unify East anc many. THIRD, BUCKLEY is ca some of his facts in the novel Early in the novel, Claudia ?i *. i i n 1 ttuuut iiui iuver \jmjpcr uiiu knows little about him. Later though, she knows that his leader of East Germany anc constructed railway cars for i Between the two scenes nothing to indicate that Casj Claudia more about himself. i/ides sinistt mmttmmaammmm .... t"? By Leslie lJu Like the majc Eastwood, "Sud the stereotypici Justice shall pit reached in a viol "Sudden Impi Harry movies, d Jk by red-tape thi criminals are reh ing with such a s * the film; the'stri and the system Y forts of Harry C j j Callahan, play< mm j cisco ponce insp JJP* * various methods M * catch criminals.1 S woman to the f I mmm * wealthy underwt I MMiJ A m i from a fatal hea | i I' / wedding recept if HI * * Callahan has bee 1 ^ with, against the i M THE AUDIEN * .<* , mediately compe If ^ the film's onset I ultimately defeat Although the The killer, Jennt wmr 9 movies, has her i< n^ng Qf ?he film, brutal assault anc sister, who beca captures es is U2 live, preserved in a powerhouse of a contains eight of U2's most popular songs t >f 1983 concerts in Europe and North Ame the Blood Red Sky;" taken from a line in t Day. SONG is also featured here where it pi ig than its polished studio version. This r j with The Edge's staunch keyboards. "I Will Follow," a song taken from " ng primal in the melodic repetitions and ith his rich tenor, emphatically sustains th e is quick and driven. The lyrics are direct:4 en they pulled the four walls down I was 1 low I was lost I am found." the only slow song in the track is from U! album "War." The song is short, but its h ronixing lyrics are easily remembered. xl ?:ii spy inrmer itains flaw; Vest Berlin. Another fact inconsisten itches from Oakes receives a photog io reason or signed with the letter " Oakes gives the same lett Gat: in fhp fhn nns/ol if Jo ni r before he Finally, on one page, th< ress for the that only Bruni knows wl ne, the little but on a later page someor he's stolen talking with Bruni or Tod, >n, and he is Oakes to Tod's residence, lis people." >uckley uses THESE ERRORS and n to inform unfortunately detract fron en East and tially a good spy story. Alt lis results in ly told from Bucklev's con ition: "'You of view, the novel does noi ve actually dent track advocating Bui at the time. the world. vith the fic- And Oates is an unusual a separate ly forced to choose befr believes is right and what for him to do. at know this Also, the novel has the I in the novel "Blackford interrogated F vas to kill a solid hours. Rodino had be 1 West Ger- only under stress. (Blac before he died, to meet on ? ikY?: i nau wucn a ntwi .rclcss with Hitler was terrific, though wonderful philosophy of lif i is thinking a manace to humankind. J realizes she in the novel Because of Oakes' < uncle is the Buckley's special brand o i his father Story of Henri Tod" sti Vdolf Hitler. above average spy novel, there was that depends so much jer had told reviewer hopes Buckley w tention to details in his ne ;r aura, fast nSOIl ^onf TViocn r UV?*V. JL 1IV0V JL U >rity of movies starring Clint a series of fri den Impact'!* is the epitome of flashbacks. S{ il gooa-guy/bad-guy films ? tackers one at :vail, even though it is often The attracti ently unorthodox manner. victim who, 1 act," the latest of the Dirty through the 1< epicts a legal systenj. befuddled ters into her < ough which many 'despicable that Callahan ?ased. But the problems of deal- unusually stri ystem are not the main focus of both intelligen uggle between good and evil is, director, make tampers rather than aids the ef- ly focusing on allahan's quest f om justice. in her mind, ed by Eastwood, is a San Fran- One of the ector who, working alone, uses Parkins, play< his superiors disapprove of to talking, crudc fchese methods include kicking a outswear any loor in a seedy bar, causing a plays her role >rld figure to slump over a table vances to both rt attack at his grandaughter's Callahan with ion, and slamming a jeering Neenan, a reg s been acquitted of a crime edy "Not Nec< in instrumental in charging him her role as the : wall in a court house elevator. rotten scum-ol fCE of "Sudden Impact" is im- EASTWOOI lied to cheer for Callahan from "Dirty Harry" , as he violently battles, and plete with his g s the vilest of these criminals. ing hair, leads >se battles are entertaining, actually living ihallerige is to solve a murder faced with gris ely leads him to a small coastal Cinematogra where similar murders occur. "Sudden Impa fer Spencer, played by Sondra suggest an unc sent in the later Eastwood the film. Lalo ientity revealed near the begin- excitement wit Spencer wants revenge for the Eastwood's I rape of herself and heryounger entertaining n me mentally ill after the inci- done it better. >sence of livi \ minialbum. The The peak of the album mu aped from their Sunday." Though Bono insists ' irica. It is called West German audience, this n< heir song "New tional plea to end all human batl ed cry and Larry Mullen's mili hplipvp t.hp npws tndav T p.?n't rl roves more ex- He later ponders: nemorable song _ ,, . And the batl Boy, there is Looks like many los nnPW canons. With trenches bi is jabbing tune. And Moth I was on them- Brothf ooking through Torn .x. ? sunaay bk 2 s critically aceartfelt melody 1 I Mi gned "Frank." mBBBSA ' .. T^.'. i reader is told , . . _ )ere Tod lives, nflHf0iSS >e else, without is able to take ' ; SBII , J ofj , .. j"gonsistencies_^BMB MWM ::: '' > II ranks iif< oUn piotfTw, 'Tl"> StorV of "??? Todd' ill " ->* U,:,,: r n " ..i Va.j m.uic niiiiam r. uucKiey jr. weaves xt novej. latest novel. action ipes are skillfully revealed through ghtening and startlingly depicted jencer tries to kill her former at; a time. ve Locke is ideal in her role as a failing to see justice carried out egal system, decides to take mat>wn hands, much in the same way i does. Her cool disposition and king and unblinking eyes convey ice and ruthlessness. Eastwood, as ;s use of these eyes by continuousthem as she relives the rape scene guilty sought by Spencer, Ray id by Audrie Neenan, is a tough; woman who can outdrink and nf hpr malo appnmnlinoc Moonon with fervor by waking sexual adi men and women and by attacking the fury of an offensive tackle, ular on the Home Box Office comessarily the News," is also ideal in ; archetypical burly and thoroughly f-the-earth character. ) HIMSELF is never better as ' Callahan. His appearance, com mt, lined face and slightly grayone to believe that he has aged by his role as an inspector frequently ily murders and senseless rapes, pher Bruce Surtees adds much to ct" through his use of shots that lertone of expectancy throughout Schifrin adds to the heightening h a dramatic soundtrack latest effort is an exciting and lovie. "Dirty Harry" has never e show st certainly be "Sunday Bloody 'This is not a rebel song" before a 2w song comes across as an emo;les. It begins with Bono's anguish tant drums. Bono relates "I can't ose my eyes and make it go away." tie's just begun t, tell me who has won lilt within our hearts ers, children ;r, Sister i Apart )ody Sunday. Sea "U2t" psga 15 jj^j^ r * ' ^Hv Jr Ji f i J M 4jy|g| M ! ??n??n?wr, a tale of suspense and intrigue in his