Word: tensest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Call it diplomacy on the fly. By expelling the inspectors two weeks ago, Saddam had sparked the tensest standoff with the U.S. since the Gulf War. President Clinton had threatened a massive attack against Iraq, but only Britain was willing to go along with it. The other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council--Russia, France and China--opposed military action, as did every country in the Middle East. That left diplomacy, which the White House began intensely two weekends ago when Clinton telephoned Russian President Boris Yeltsin to give him the green light to find...
...Korea. The Seoul government quickly labeled the landing "an act of military provocation" and demanded that the North call a halt to violations of the armistice agreement that ended the war in 1953. The DMZ is the world's most heavily armed border, and probably the tensest. With North Korea mired in famine and economic stagnation, there is considerable apprehension among its neighbors that the Stalinist government in Pyongyang might seek a solution in a desperate attack on the South...
...party scenes are particular highlights of the production. The entire cast makes an elegant picture in which some of the tensest dramatic moments of the plot are framed...
...hurt are those viewers who can't get used to the nosy, nausea-invoking camera style in the movie's fake documentary format. Take some Dramamine, folks. Then savor the desperate wit and the sharp acting -- especially that of Davis, who executes high comedy with the world's tensest mouth, and Farrow, doggedly searching for an Adam in a new Eden...