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...prowled like a stand-up comic, permitted himself the occasional thin smile, inflected his stats with Bob Hope-style throwaway lines ("But I gotta tell ya . . . "). When asked to appraise Saddam's soldiering skills, he snorted a "Ha!," then launched into a catalog of caustic irony. He tamped his rage into questions intimidating ("Have you ever been in a minefield?") and rhetorical ("Do I fear a cease-fire?"). But the most moving moment came when he caught himself describing the low allied casualty rate as "miraculous." Then his emotions briefly stumbled over his eloquence. "It will never be ra . . . miraculous...
Stone has relived the Vietnam War in two bold, woozy melodramas, Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July; his next movie is about the assassination of J.F.K. In subject and style he is the last director of the '60s, finding truth in rage, beauty in psychedelic sunsets, politics in self-destruction. His movies make people edgy, and that's a good thing. But this time Stone is a symptom of the disease he would chart. It is folly to lavish $40 million of somebody's money (that's $10 million a Door!) and 2 hr. 15 min. of your...
Second only to the Iraqis as a target of Kuwaiti rage are the more than 300,000 Palestinians who lived and worked in Kuwait before the invasion. Because the Palestine Liberation Organization allied itself with Saddam, Iraqi forces in Kuwait treated many local Palestinians as a kind of auxiliary force. They helped administer and police the country and were rewarded with special privileges. Palestinians manned checkpoints, for example, and were permitted to sell consumer goods in street stalls, something that was illegal before...
...agony. Yet each time Bella rearranges the seating, dictates the flow of conversation or interrupts her tongue-tied tale to say, "This is not the way I pictured it," her frustration gets a mounting laugh. At the climax, her staccato pleadings fuse into an aria of justified rage and saintly forgiveness toward the limits imposed on her by life and by her loved ones. Abruptly, spectators who were crying with laughter are simply crying, without any sense of being manipulated. The ability to find humor in unlikely places, then shift emotional gears with no machinery showing, makes Simon a great...
...while the New Paradigm continues to be all the rage in Washington D.C., it remains to be seen exactly what effect the idea will have on research at the Kennedy School...