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Anne Marie Barker of Roslindale brought her boss, a South Boston dentist, to the concert based on the choir's reputation...
...shaped -- and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain and a silicon chip where his heart should be. They and a very good supporting cast often ground Disclosure in some kind of behavioral honesty, almost turn it into a realistic portrait of the modern workplace -- full of false camaraderie, anxious...
...Wedding to the middle-class family, H.E.A.L.T.H. to the organic-food business and The Player to Hollywood, so is Ready to Wear to fashion: a comic panorama of people pretending to get along under stress, creating a bogus community, playing games of power and privilege, establishing who's boss. The tone of an Altman film -- the desperate milling, the sense of isolation within a crowd, the urgency to no clear end -- is the reflection of life on any movie set and, indeed, in the working lives of most people. When the scheme works, as in MASH and The Player...
Ruiz Massieu informed a packed crowd at the Attorney General's headquarters in Mexico City that he had left three sealed boxes in the office of the Attorney General. The boxes, he said, contained documents proving his boss and two prominent officials of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I., had illegally attempted to block his investigation into the assassination of a leading politician. For a Mexican prosecutor to make a televised appearance is exceptional; to do so in order to call members of the P.R.I. "demons" and accuse them of unsubstantiated crimes is unprecedented. Yet the case that...
...sources of this alleged obstruction, Ruiz Massieu announced, were the P.R.I.'s president, Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza, and current secretary-general, Maria de los Angeles Moreno, as well as his own boss, Attorney General Humberto Benitez Trevino. Ruiz Massieu refused to give specifics of the cover- up, saying only that his superiors "were more concerned with trying to defend the criminals than with resolving the issue." He promised the documents would prove his charges...