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Tapping into the post-Cold War paranoia of nuclear arms falling into unknown hands, this wellpaced but predictable action/suspense thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendenies of a Harvard-graduated loony. --Jonathan B. Dinerstein...
...showing us the ambition and the ruthlessness of her character; her increasingly strained expression in the banquet scene of III.iv is simultaneously funny and painful to behold. And her sleepwalking scene in V.i is exquisitely performed. It is one of the few scenes in this production which seemed to stir any real emotional reaction...
Tapping into the post-Cold War paranoia of nuclear arms falling into unknown hands, this wellpaced but predictable action/suspense thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendencies of a Harvard-graduated loony...
Rhetoric caused even less of a stir than the specific proposals. Whether it was wild-card challenger William B. Cunningham or incumbent Kathleen L. Born, the candidates all seemed to be reading from the same scripts...
...retirement. Then, early this year, he named Bill Keller, 48, a former foreign correspondent who won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, to replace Roberts this month. Though criticized in some quarters as having too similar a background to Lelyveld (and causing a stir internally because of his messy personal life: around the time of the promotion he had left his wife and adopted son for a British journalist who was pregnant with his child), Keller has received a good initial reception in the newsroom. His chief competition to succeed Lelyveld when he retires...