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...brief glimpses of General Radek (Jurgen Prochnow) plunge us back into the Cold War: As he strides across the prison yard in highly decorated military uniform, he looks the epitome of a maniacal tyrant. But it's Oldman's performance as Korshunov that gives the film its tension and intensity, adding layers to his character's coolly calculating role with outbursts of frightening patriotic zeal for "Mother Russia." There is also a revealing moment when Korshunov gently kisses Alice on the forehead and strokes back her hair from her tear-stained face, suggesting that beneath the seemingly cold-blooded terrorist...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: Executive Decision: 'AF1' Flies on Star Power | 8/1/1997 | See Source »

Critiquing Jurgen Habermas' appraisal of the feminist movement as a politics of withdrawal, Song saw in the Korean feminist associations a preparatory politics as academics and full-time housewives began to articulate the generalizable interests of women...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Defining a Feminist/Activist | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Pasquale savors law reviews and political philosophy. He says the Unabomber developed a sophisticated social theory, and he worships theorist Jurgen Habermas as the one who crystallized "all my latent Marxist, critical theoretical and radical democratic intuitions about what had gone wrong with the American public sphere...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: Socially Critical | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...social vision" indicates that we should give more respect to those who attempted to craft one in the past. I find examples in people like John Dewey, with his great veneration of democracy; or Herbert Marcuse, who spotted the debilitating effects of untrammeled capitalism all around him; and presently Jurgen Habermas, who sees in unlimited corporate expansion a new colonization of our minds and lifestyles potentially as insidious and oppressive as colonial regimes of old. Any of these theorists could profitably be studied by those seeking to "place" their work in a larger social context...

Author: By Frank A. Pasquale, | Title: Soft Hearts, Soft Minds | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

...61st minute, Jurgen Klinsmann, a star scorer for the Germans, earned his pay by acquiring a point while the Bolivian goaltender, Carlos Trucco, was engaged in picking himself up off the ground. German enthusiasts chanted, whooped and sang, while Bolivian hearts sank along with mine. The game ended orderly and soberly 29 minutes later. There was nothing rowdy or untoward about the crowd at any time, despite the sport's reputation for passion that leaves bruises. People just got up and walked out. No announcer said anything, not even the final score or that it was time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Spectator | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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