Word: clever
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writer-director Lowenstein uses glossy images and clever camera angles to give the movie a slick, high-tech look in the same vacuous MTV style of his INXS videos. The movie looks great, but is so hopelessly vapid that it hardly matters. This emptiness is due to Lowenstein's complete neglect of some of the niceties of movie-making--plot and character...
...there is more than luck involved, as Western experts make clear. "The Phobos mission," says Cornell Planetary Scientist Carl Sagan, "is not just world class. It is novel, diverse and appropriate. The whole idea is very clever." Notes Gerhard Neukum, of the German Aerospace Research Establishment: "The Mars mission is fantastic. It carries a huge set of instruments. They did it with Venus. Now they have focused on Mars, and it is to be expected that they will be equally successful." In fact, each of the probes will carry 25 instruments -- an enormous number, considering that the U.S.'s complex...
...years he became its representative on Intelsat's board of governors and then jumped to the top rung at the international agency. He took office just as critics, especially within the Reagan Administration, accused Intelsat of obstructing the growth of competing satellite systems that would bypass Comsat. The clever and resourceful attorney moved swiftly to increase Intelsat's flexibility. Among other things, Colino led Intelsat to sell satellite transponders, which are the parts of the orbiters that relay electronic signals, to 13 countries, including Japan and Argentina, which use them only for domestic communications needs. The move greatly reduced...
Bork is no less clever and no less twisted when it comes to civil rights. He explains away his opposition to the Public Accommodations Bill, a forerunner of the Civil Rights Acts, as an "intellectual mistake" commited when he was under the sway of hard-core libertarianism. While Bork has corrected this flaw in his thinking, he has relaced it with a dogmatic faith in "the jurisprudence of Original Intent." This theory would bind America to the specific 18th Century values (allegedly) held by specific 18th Century gentleman. Lost in Bork's theoretical shuffle would be the broad guarantees...
...treason, not the passion, that has to carry the movie. Judged as a pure suspense movie, No Way Out doesn't rank up there with 39 Steps or Dr. No. It does toss in a clever conclusion--casting the rest of the plot in a more intriguing, although confusing, light--but no snappy ending can compensate for an hour's worth of mediocre machinations...