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...from marriage to a handsome brute (Richard Chamberlain). She chooses Archie (George C. Scott), a surgeon who has just left his wife (Shirley Knight). Released in 1968, this astringent love story, which Lester (A Hard Day's Night) chopped up and brilliantly reassembled for the DVD, is full of awkward tenderness and eruptions of violence. It's a flawless, essential study of despair and compassion. Brick Rian Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Marvelous Movies You May Have Missed | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...filing could also raise awkward questions for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte because Keyser's wife Margaret Lyons is a senior CIA official on loan in a sensitive post helping set up a new open-source unit of DNI. The prosecutors' filing says Lyons had known for about a year that Keyser had improperly kept classified documents at home. Worse, current and former U.S. government officials tell TIME, an FBI search of the couple's home found CIA documents that Lyons had there without authorization. In a Feb. 22 letter to the judge in Keyser's case, Lyons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stay Away From Spook-y Women | 7/18/2006 | See Source »

...country," Hill said, "and that country just seems intent on taking all of China's generosity and giving nothing back." Says Yan Xuetong, a professor of international relations at Beijing's Tsinghua University: "I think that China is very unhappy with North Korea, which put it in a very awkward position. China now feels it is trapped in a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst of Friends | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...filing could also raise awkward questions for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte because Keyser?s wife, Margaret Lyons, is a senior CIA official on loan in a sensitive post helping set up a new open-source unit of DNI. The prosecutors? filing says Lyons had known for about a year that Keyser had improperly kept classified documents at home. Worse, current and former U.S. government officials tell TIME, an FBI search of the couple?s home found CIA documents that Lyons had there without authorization. In a Feb. 22 letter to the judge in Keyser?s case, Lyons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Steamy Spy Scandal at the State Department | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...Most of this awkward time she has been quiet, with a dull gaze that harbors reproach, for him or herself or both. At one point she touches her dark shirt to brush off something we can't quite see - is it her chagrin, her defeat, the evidence of her lover's passion? Then, Jean plays the gentleman and makes a fatal mistake. He says, "I forgive you." And she explodes in a derisive giggle. Even more than the insult, he senses the threat. "Then this letter is not the worst of it?" he asks, and she replies, like a death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off With Their Hearts! | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

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