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Muskie also had superb political credentials. He was both a staunch supporter of a President who values loyalty highly, and a respected member of the chamber that must confirm him. Muskie's confirmation hearings are unlikely to turn into a Senate inquisition of the Administration's foreign policy...
...became more subdued, replaced first by the broody romanticism of movies such as Rebecca (1940) and Notorious (1946), then by the assured slickness of Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). It was in the middle of that last group that, in two superb, underrated films, The Wrong Man (1957) and Vertigo (1958), he directly, quite humorlessly, confronted his belief that injustice will be done and that nothing is what it seems to be. Psycho, in 1960, has no moral center at all, and The Birds (1963) shows the natural world itself in revolt...
...continued good fortune contrasts with his wife Sarah's terrible fear that they are undeserving, that their happy world is doomed. With a religious devotion bordering on fanaticism, Sarah dreads the day when God will punish her family to conpensate for all their prosperous years. Amy Gutman is superb as Sarah--her loyalty is icily cold rather than fervent. Gutman knows that a calm, reticent fanatic is far more unsettling than a fiery one. When she asks the children "Did you think of God, today?" she's not Billy Graham screaming from the pulpit, but a clear-eyed Moonie confronting...
...department is at an all-time peak, so I don't have serious duties of reconstruction," Montgomery said yesterday, adding that the department "has been administered by a superb chairman, so I don't even have to make new administrative procedures...
...OSKAR, Schlondorff discovered David Bennent, a ten-year-old, blue-eyed, frozen-faced lad who himself stopped growing at age six. Surrounded by a superb supporting cast, Bennent's Oskar watches the world with angry insolence, determined to drum, to examine the world of adults with studied innocence. His voice has a contemptible condescending tone that nonetheless seduces us. His high-pitched screams that break glass--art as a destructive protest--ring with the desperate tremor of a genius creating a master-piece. Bennent is terrifying in a Nazi uniform yet his cherubic smile is almost Christ-like...