Word: broodingness
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So begins a remarkable, brooding detective thriller by Peter Hoeg, a Danish writer whose work is new to the U.S. The story's grim background is Denmark's exploitation of Greenland, the bleak northern island given its bosky name by Erik the Red, an early real estate promoter who hoped...
Also, Kaufmann spoils valuable shock potential by casting edgy-psycho specialist Ray Wise as an important senator. There's no question the senator is up to something after Wise's first goofy leer. Some unexpectedly intense eroticism seems thrown in to earn the film its thriller merit badge, but excellent...
Robert Dole. The once stolid, sardonic and brooding Senate minority leader has seemed positively giddy since Clinton moved into the White House. Dole has never before enjoyed the luxury of being minority leader against a Democratic President -- and he clearly likes the work. To be sure, the President has yet...
The cold war offered few grander pageants than summit meetings between the leader of the free world and the ruler of the Soviet empire. Whether the venue was Vienna, Washington, Moscow or a brooding house by the sea in Reykjavik, the sessions carried an air of high history, a sense...
Under the polished surface of his pop-star persona, Sting is a hopeless romantic, obsessed with the gritty, contradictory textures of human emotion. During the early 1980s, as the lead singer and lyricist for the Police, the brooding bassist used his poetic gifts to dredge up the debris of his...