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updated March 22, 2013 at 11:01 AM   "Daniel Day-Lewis Triple
Feature," 1983-1986, 276 min., not rated, $24.98 DVD  Now that
he's become the first three-time winner of the Academy Award for
best actor, even the most obscure items on Daniel Day-Lewis'
résumé are being unearthed. Plenty of Oscar winners have
embarrassing turkeys in their pasts, but this is Daniel Day
Lewis we're talking about. Even the mildest of the three
mid-1980s BBC films in this set rises to a level of engaging
mediocrity.  The "Daniel Day-Lewis Triple Feature" should be
viewed in chronological order for maximum impact. "How Many
Miles to Babylon" (1982) is an undistinguished, but competently
crafted, earnest bit of soft-focus pacifism. In his first lead
role, Day-Lewis plays an upper-class Irish soldier in World War
I who can't decide whether he should be fighting for or against
Britain.  "Dangerous Corner," which a