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...sober wit of this comedy arises not from conventional artifice--snappy dialogue, wacky situations--but from a realistically drawn ensemble interacting truthfully with one another. And gently, insinuatingly rebelling against their dismal fate. --By Richard Schickel...
...proxy war against the Soviets, who themselves were then at war in Afghanistan. These Games would transcend even politics and patriotism on their way toward therapy. "This is an important event under any circumstance," Utah Governor Mike Leavitt had said a few weeks after the attacks, "but fate may have fallen upon this state and city to host an event where the world will come together to heal...
After his wife’s death, Klein is sucked into the mystery behind the Mothman. Due to some mysterious twists of fate, he spends the better part of the film’s latter half investigating Mothman sightings in a small town in West Virginia. Luckily, Klein soon finds a partner, Sgt. Connie Parker, to help him unravel the mystery behind the Mothman. Along the way, the two encounter many townspeople who claim to have seen, and in some cases spoken to, the Mothman. Sgt. Parker is played by Laura Linney, who brings the same subtlety and sense...
...long despised by its own people for its authoritarianism and corrupt cronyism, the limits of its authority graphically demonstrated on a daily basis by the Israelis. Today it is not only the Islamists and leftists but Arafat's own followers, too, who are openly defying their leader, taking Palestinian fate into their own hands along with Kalashnikovs and belts of explosives. They pour scorn on Arafat's periodic cease-fire calls, asking what Palestinians will get in return except for a continuation of the occupation. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres has repeatedly warned that the Palestinians have no incentive...
...current deadlock simply condemns both sides to share Arafat's fate - rising each morning to pedal furiously to nowhere, while contemplating his own death...