Word: nicholson
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...Gregers, profoundly contemptuous of the latter's lofty "claims of the ideal," convinced that the average man or family (like the Ekdals) needs lies and illusions, not ideals, to survive, the worldweary doctor is played effectively--almost too effectively--by Jack Willis, who cuts a Jack Nicholson-like figure with his sardonic drawl and menacing animus towards Gregers. His is the image that lasts, the voice that crowds out the others and cuts down even the moments of pathos, especially at the end. The Wild Duck may not be a tragedy, but there is a tragedy within it, which fails...
...second room, the subject shifts to celebrities, mostly models and actors. Ritts takes no single approach to photographing them. There is the cast of Batman Forever in full costume, including Jim Carrey hamming it up as the Riddler and a huge Warholesque quartet of portraits of Jack Nicholson as the Joker. There is Vanity Fair's gender-bending cover photo of Cindy Crawford playing the seductress for k.d. lang. Unlike the anonymous models of the first part of the exhibition, whose faces are often turned away or obscured, the faces of the celebrities are essential to their portraits. However, sometimes...
...Ames case, the government squeezed a guilty plea from him by promising to drop charges against his wife. It's not clear what comparable leverage it has against Nicholson, except to offer reduced charges in return for a confession. At present, prosecutors don't have enough evidence to seek the death penalty, but if convicted on the current charge, Nicholson still faces life in prison without parole. So silence, and the threat of taking his case to trial, may for now be Nicholson's greatest weapon. For the CIA, it also means a nightmare, as it wonders just what damage...
...League it isn't. Camp Peary, where accused double agent Harold Nicholson taught from 1994 to 1996, is the CIA's top-secret school for spies, known in agency circles as "the Farm." Students, called career trainees, take a year-long, $150,000-per-recruit program that prepares them to work in the agency's clandestine service. Located on 9,000 acres of barbed-wire-encircled woods outside Williamsburg, Virginia, the Farm looks like a community college, with brick buildings, dorms, a cafeteria and a gym laid out on a bucolic campus. But it also has such uncollegiate features...
...quality of faculty is on the upswing; for years the posts were filled by agency alcoholics needing to dry out. Still, Nicholson was arrested after allegedly making blunders that would have a Farm trainee staying after class cleaning erasers. In a story filled with cliches, from scheming Russians to a spy accused of selling out his country, this spy instructor's ham-handed technique added one more: those who can't do, teach...