Screen:

...Both were adapted to the screen with the aid of The film also satirizes the ability of defense lawyers (whom their playwrights, William Mastrosimone in the former case Russo, once "jailed" in the fireplace, mimics perfectly) to try and Marsha Norman in the latter...

...But film's realism denies a performer the Brancroft overcompensates...

...Johnson's discussion of possible U.S...

...Extremities is realizing that misunderstood goal of our Constitution, "to dominated by constant use of close ups of only two main establish justice...

...Viking has marketed the primary reason, in his mind, for execut- craft patrolling near Kamchatka Peninbook that way, promising in full-page ing such a spy mission in the first place: a sula could not have spotted KAL or ads to refund the purchase price to any- new radar installation deep within warned it because the RC-135 was not one who can "shoot down" Johnson's Siberia, well over 3000 km...

...no sudden unbearable catastrophe that drives her to the edge...

...ant practical consequence at the present time concerns the financial threat to the very existence of Catholic higher education in the United States...

...The plays involve low budgets: they require no special Such protection is not only good for the discipline of Catholic effects, only one or two sets, and role-starved actors willing to theology, but also is good for the total church as it strives for take pay cuts to perform in literate screenplays...

...His discussion the CIA to provoke a violent Soviet ac- nores information from one of his own of taped reports by the SU- 15 pilot who tion...

...The hierarchical magisterium is Heart, Children of a Lesser God, and others) that will always free if it deems it necessary to point out the errors and premiere as films in the next six months, the result of a strange ambiguities in the work of a theologian, but it cannot make but happy twist in Hollywood production strategies...

...University of America...

...Although there are some narrative holes, the film the other hand, psychological improbabilities can be carried documents the relaxed attitude of the police to potential sexual off better in live theater, where a strong (even ranting) per- crimes or, more accurately, to work at having to investigate formance more readily evokes a willing suspension of our them...

...Indeed, Mastrosimone and Young provides an unforgettable close-up of a victim's experience have added an outdoor, attempted rape to foreshadow the later and a provocative defense of a victim's anger...

...from the equipped with the necessary radar...

...Sissy Spacek plays a young woman determined to comThe acting is also quietly powerful, with the lead played by mit suicide...

...Thus, if there were no academic freedom and inautonomy with the truth claims made by the Catholic church stitutional autonomy for Catholic higher education, it might and its hierarchical teaching office...

...In the past the Supreme Court has ruled such public funding is acceptable for Catholic higher education but not for Catholic elementary and high schools...

...Few actresses could make convincing the grotes- she pulls the trigger - including what to do between phoning 12 September 1986: 471 the police and the arrival of the ambulance...

...It transcends the attempt in the house in which most of the story occurs...

...Competency for the Catholic theologian demands that one theogogize within the pale of the Roman Catholic faith...

...However, in the light of the new However, the question is can Catholic theology accept the Code of Canon Law with its Canon 812, the same problems American concept of academic freedom...

...It information and action...

...When the dialogue unearths the past history of the family, compelling...

...has temporarily, ironically, led to a happy end...

...EXTREMITIES' & 'NIGHT MOTHER' otherwise one is incompetent as a Catholic theologian...

...Indeed, even before she is attacked, she is unafraid of pointments, culminating in a Christmas when "nothing hap-, looking faded...

...Numerous articles and at least R. W. Johnson because such equipment is designed to seven books have already appeared, with Viking, $18.951,335 pp...

...More specifically, the very well be that the court would rule that public funding for question is can and should Catholic theology be responsibly Catholic institutions of higher learning is unconsitutional...

...Only when "business" occurs - some pushed to the edge of her nose, mugs stereotypically...

...Appardecisions having direct juridical effect in the academy...

...By being true to its source in this apt way, the film is a perfect I N iGHTMOTHER is a dry, tedious adaptation until its close...

...Academic freedom respects the freedom of the scholar to pursue truth with no limits placed on scholarship other than honesty and competency...

...To some degree, a play's restricted return from work late in the film...

...protection to the rights of the Catholic theological scholar...

...Catholic colleges and universities receive a large amount of financial help in different forms from the public monies of the state...

...There, easy cliches of both "law-and-order" ideologues and liberals paradoxically, Mastrosimone and Young make the film potent who talk as if no one, except the state, were ever guilty of by keeping it "closed" - by limiting the shots, angles, and anything...

...A LTHOUGH it has been three years SROOTDOWN cates that KAL's flight could not possisince the Soviet Union shot down FLIGHT 007 AND THE bly have been detected by either this new KAL 007, events surrounding the air- AMERICAN, CONNECTION radar installation under construction or a liner's tragic fate remain shrouded in similar one in operation in Kamchatka mystery...

...In fact, her roots are literary, her father is the On stage, such defects would not be so evident...

...amusing in drama...

...These are serious In addition, Mastrosimone and Director Robert Young have issues, and one wishes that Extremities, despite the virtue of "opened up" the play just enough while retaining its integrity...

...Johnson Throughout the book Johnson misuses Sayle...

...Both concern dire but impor- the rape victim, not the rapist...

...Infends herself against her attacker (James Russo) when he deed, the story's main "action," until the close, consists of breaks into her house and slowly, torturously, prepares to rape conversation (in the kitchen, the bedroom, the living room of a and kill her...

...culpability...

...But she alone can't overcome defects of the blonde and airy hairdo had something to do with what went on plot...

...Sayle wrote in London's Sunday maintains that the Korean airliner was on sources, particularly when discussing the Times that the U.S...

...taught and researched in the context of academic freedom and If the Vatican congregation or any ecclesiastical authority institutional autonomy...

...especially some buried secrets about epilepsy, it leaves a But it is too little, too late...

...The film includes an early scene where Fawcett pleads disbelief...

...TOM O'BRIEN Books: 007 CONSPIRACY OR ACCIDENT...

...I insist that the question of the academic I will briefly describe how I think 'academic freedom and freedom and institutional autonomy respecting Catholic higher Catholic theology are compatible...

...Her final scenes rivet as nothing else in the film...

...In Extremities, she is again equal to a harsh, unglamorous Instead, we must accept, as motive, an accumulation of disaprole...

...Re- resents his attempt to assemble proofs tion, proceeded to concoct a fantastic gardless of orientation, however, all suf- demonstrating U.S...

...In addi- scheme to prove it true...

...Johnson admits addition, according to civil aviation exknowledge of this conspiracy, but it is that the CIA already knew this radar pert Douglas Feaver of the Washington obvious that he believes it to be true...

...any kind...

...The PLAYS ON FILM Catholic theologian must teach Catholic theology as such...

...But she actually becomes haggard as she de- pened...

...He does not claim certain areas KAL overflew...

...Actually, the fer from the fact that no single author tion, the book posits a scenario in which most interesting parts of Shootdown are commands the technical, political, and such a drastic and dangerous course of directed toward supporting this rationale...

...Thus, the same filmmaking-by-demography that has Catholic theology is an important theoretical question with led to all the movies for designated age groups (children, many practical consequences...

...inside her head...

...reconnaissance aira spy mission...

...match of style and content...

...higher learning...

...even if such plays address a limited audience, the producers see it as a sure one, the so-called "white-wine-and-brie" T HE ACADEMIC FREEDOM of Catholic institutions and of crowd...

...We are convinced, however, that monitoring of KAL relies on mistaken Beyond that, of course, many of the Johnson has no solid evidence for his claims of military radar capabilities prewriters have had a political or ideological belief...

...for help from a bureaucratic woman cop to illustrate that token Extremities has managed the translation more smoothly than personnel changes don't necessarily mean greater sensitivity...

...It is the U.S.," Week and Space Technology...

...When plays become films, they always face a rapist inside her fireplace, and then starts preparing a grave for difficult translation, and what works in one medium fails in him in her vegetable garden...

...linguistic expertise necessary to avoid action might make political sense...

...But Miss Fawcett excelled in the play South...

...use of time and space has to be "opened up" in film to include Extremities, in part, files a "feminist" brief for better law wider, sometimes improbable, circles of physical action...

...Emotionally, scenes have been added at the beginning of the film to provide it rescues the issue of law and order from their clutches...

...How- EXTREMITIES and 'Night Mother are the first of about ten ever, the ultimate decision with juridical effects must be made recent (and decent) plays (including Crimes of the by peers in the academy...

...The difference between higher and lower education is that in higher education there is no indoctrination and the principles of academic freedom are reconcile the existence of academic freedom and insitutional observed...

...These fall into two classes, the the USSR an apology...

...Precisely," Spacek explains, "That's it...

...When Fawcett starts to dig Russo's grave, characters in one static setting...

...Klass indi- the aircraft by radio are refuted in an Commonweal: 472...

...would not violate the ABM treaty, con- Post, KAL was not under any Western In December 1983, The Guardian trary to claims from the far right...

...Values should be Catholic institution, this seems to be a violation of academic very important in all the human disciplines...

...Academic freedom and education and Catholic theology should not ultimately be institutional autonomy mean that any decision affecting pro- decided because of practical consequences for Catholic higher motion, hiring, or dismissal of faculty members must be made education...

...Moreover, creative fidelity to the word and work of Jesus...

...contrived impression...

...Disarming him by spraying roach repellent in his single house) as Bancroft attempts to dissuade her daughter, face, Fawcett becomes a scarifying fury when she considers who calmly goes through domestic items to be dealt with after vengeance...

...Some maintain that this is the case only for a very general a greater openness in American academe today to few ecclesiastical faculties or universities such as the Catholic accept the adacemic respectibility of disciplines like theology...

...Although she looks her frumpy theatricality necessary to make credible such cool, quasi- part, she tries too hard to be down-home, and with glasses absurdist melodrama...

...Night Mother...

...two or three more expected soon...

...On and order...

...tant subjects, rape and retaliation in Extremities and suicide in Although specifically about rape, Extremities also makes 'Night Mother...

...It reminds one of the difficulty, and the necessity, of action to produce a sense of claustrophobia...

...but on the other hand, one cannot ignore these by peers in the academy and not by outside persons or forces of possible consequences...

...But Extremities succeeds because the play more general political statements about the need for protection itself was less talky than most, and thus is apt for film, where from criminals and the public perception that current law visuals are so strong that words work better when understated...

...Only intemperate tossing of cans, for example - is the awkward near the end, when, alternately, she accepts her daughter's psychology displaced enough off center to soften our incredul- decision but then tries to stop her physically, is Bancroft ity...

...A would-be rapist continually the film unearths some middle ground that is well worth threats and torments a woman, resulting in charged, packed examining...

...ing the author's use of sources and his son, the author has to ignore another of R: W. Johnson's Shootdown belongs proof...

...his sources, veteran reporter Murray to the conspiracy camp...

...Peers in judging the competency of a Catholic theologian must give due weight to the teaching of the hierarchical magisterium...

...Public This leaves the author without an interest continues high, but, given the Marilyn J. Young and adequate motivation except, perhaps, impossibility of definitively determining Michael K. Launer that the CIA had fostered the false notion why the shootdown happened, only dis- of Soviet ABM treaty violations to apparate, tenuous hypotheses have been Johnson wrote at that time, "which owes pease critics on the far right...

...ignore the presence of aircraft...

...There has not been as about academic freedom exist for all Catholic institutions of much discussion in this area as there should be...

...To demonstrate this, we will con- viously published by David Pearson, also axe to grind, which might or might not be centrate on three technical areas, examin- a conspiracy theorist...

...claim that intelligence requirements elicited little useful intelligence regard- Johnson, who knows no Russian, is combined with the hope of derailing the ing Soviet radar...

...Thus there is in freedom...

...its small design, could probe them more...

...Perhaps the most signific- preteens, postadolescents, recent college grads, big chill yupCommonweal: 470 pies et al...

...ently independently, a number of producers decided that such There is no doubt that academic freedom gives some added plays could be turned into films at small cost for a sure return...

...Fur- civilian radar coverage for over 2000 published Johnson's unsubstantiated thermore, a "passive probe" could have miles of its journey...

...Fawcett achieves more: she is another...

...Shootdown rep- agency, believing its own disinformaaccidental and the conspiratorial...

...Several new Cobra, which he claims is about victims' rights...

...In following Pearannounced but is always discernible...

...Norman's famous publisher, and her last television job was The Burning play concerns a cold, rational-looking decision to commit Bed, in which she played a victim of spouse abuse with suicide...

...propaganda...

...Film needs less "speech" and more "business...

...Spacek endures no severe depression, no black cloud, powerful intensity...

...Spacek not only lacks our sympathy, Perhaps this could be made convincing, at least blackly but our interest...

...Anne Bancroft plays, and at first dreadfully overFarrah Fawcett, who I suppose must be referred to "as an acts as, the mother with whom Spacek lives somewhere down ex-Charlie's Angel...

...then the advanced...

...Film is both less and more realistic: less in its freedom sympathetic, even in resisting the conventional moral arguwith time and space, and more in its ability to focus, close-up, ments of her roommates (Deana Scarwid, Alfe Woodard) who on an actor as a real person...

...Generically, it resembles such films as Death Extremities lasts only ninety minutes, but not a second is Wish, Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" movies, and Stallone's wasted, either dramatically or photographically...

...At least its honest The result is both exciting and thoughtful, and one of the year's treatment will not let such concerns be dismissed as right-wing best films...

...que scenes where she binds and imprisons the unconscious More or less...

...The accepted principles of academic freedom recognize that even tenured faculty Screen members can be terminated if they are incompetent and the judgment of incompetency is made by academic peers...

...In conclusions...

...How better to justify placing Persh- sources, an article by Philip J. Klass, destroyed KAL and of Soviet claims that ing II and cruise missiles in Britain and then Senior Avionics Editor of Aviation they methodically attempted to contact West Germany...

...enforcement is not adequate to the task...

...can declare someone no longer a Catholic theologian and From the viewpoint of the American academy, there is a unable to teach in the name of the church, and thereby prevent greater awareness today of the bankruptcy of an older insis- that professor from continuing to teach Catholic theology in a tence on being value free or value neutral...

...damaging errors...

...wrong in his interpretation of most of the Western European peace movement, led Yet, in making this claim Johnson ig- Soviet materials he uses...

...Spacek is adequate, and like Fawcett dares to appear Extremities, astonishing those who thought her infamous without makeup...

...visual frames that almost physically burst their seams...