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...film, scripted by Nicholas Meyer, begins stiffly, concealing its true nature. But when Coleman opens the lair of his vulnerability to two strangers--the writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) and a local louche woman named Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman)--The Human Stain warms to its characters' decency and neediness. It blooms in poignancy with flashback scenes of Coleman's '40s family--the wise mother (beautiful Anna Deavere Smith) and upright father (Harry Lennix) he disowns--and finds anchor in his affair with Faunia. "Granted, she is not my great love," Coleman says. "But she sure as hell is my last...
...caps, comical by day, but somehow haunting when he is actually angry or incredulous. When I informed him that they were gay, and that Mather house allowed for such arrangements, his tone didn’t change, and he was sure I was entering some sort of sketchy roommate lair that would swallow his only, delicate daughter whole before she ever managed to grasp a diploma...
Upstairs at Dia is what could only be called the lair of Louise Bourgeois, who inhabits the space like a crazy old aunt in the attic. Born in 1911, Bourgeois is one of the founding figures of feminist art, and what she does has very little to do with the sanitary composure of Minimalism. Nothing could be further removed from Judd's mute boxes than the psychodrama of Bourgeois's sculptural pieces, with their sources in the clammiest corners of the psyche and in the meat and moisture of the human body. In recent years she has been showing variations...
Last week's raid of the terrorists' lair yielded an additional 770 lbs. of explosives--in all, enough to level a city block. It was a timely haul. Interrogations revealed that Attash and his cohorts had imminent plans to crash a small plane laden with the explosives into the U.S. consulate in Karachi. That prompted the Department of Homeland Security to issue an advisory to all pilots and aircraft-rental companies, urging them to secure their planes in case other aerial attacks had been planned. "Just because these six have been arrested, it doesn't mean there's no longer...
...Last week's raid of the terrorists' lair yielded an additional 770 pounds of explosives?in all, enough to level a city block. It was a timely haul, to say the least. U.S. officials believe Attash and his cohorts had imminent plans to load the explosives into a small plane and crash it into the American consulate in Karachi. That prompted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to issue an advisory to pilots and aircraft rental companies urging them to secure their planes. "Just because these six have been arrested, it doesn't mean there's no longer a concern...