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...result is a curious air of menace that hangs over this movie. It is a slow-moving film, with too many loose ends left hanging for some tastes. And sometimes its self-consciousness is exasperating, as if Henry James unaccountably decided to write a crime novel. On the other hand, if you surrender to the film's often inexplicable rhythms, if you let its dark materials reach out and envelop you, it can be a curiously rewarding experience--a blend of silences and sudden bursts of violence that, despite its highly stylized manner, feels more edgily lifelike and more disturbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Stylish Revenge | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Check In | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...deemed too rough for the small screen) was The Killers in 1964. It's a bit of a cheap thrill to watch Reagan play a crime heavy and do his professional best in a scene where he has to slap Angie Dickinson. The Killers, violent and cynical, was a curious coda to Reagan's career. But, in a way, he had only been moonlighting as a movie actor ever since his Army days. He was moving into politics, graduating from Hollywood in the '40s to Sacramento in the '60s to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Days in Hollywood: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...think you have to be very curious for this kind of job,” he says. “I drive people crazy with the number of questions I ask,” he quips. “But you also have to recognize that you’re getting paid to further your education and learn something new and get paid...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Colleagues Reunite at Newsweek Magazine | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

When I first arrived at Harvard, I assumed that my roommates and friends would be curious to hear what growing up in Manhattan was like, but that at most it would be a topic of conversation during Freshman Week. Frankly, I had lived my whole life in “The City,” surrounded by others who had grown up there, and didn’t think that my hometown would incite any immense interest, much less any animosity...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, | Title: A New York State of Mind | 6/8/2004 | See Source »

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