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...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...
Even in the tensest moments, both sides are sensitive to how the world views the confrontation. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who plays the White House chief of staff, leaves at one point to hold a press conference. On the Moscow end, Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Academy of Sciences, reminds his comrades that they need to keep the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, informed of developments...
...tensest moment came when the students burst through the last police line before Tiananmen Square, the symbolic seat of power and the scene two weeks ago of a violent confrontation between students and police. According to students, two were seriously injured and 300 briefly detained. As the activists proceeded down the Avenue of Eternal Peace toward the north side of the 100-acre square, they were met by truckloads of troops. But the soldiers made no move to stop the demonstrators, who swarmed around the trucks. After a few minutes, the vehicles and their bewildered passengers slowly drove away...
...struts across the stage as a matriarch, conversing cutely with her family. And Sagara's ingenious accent and ability to dotter make the character of the grumpy old Chinatown boss. Chen in the silent role of China Mama manages to make her presence felt at the play's tensest moments...
During Ronald Reagan's intensive press-conference preparations, the tensest moment came on Thursday afternoon in the family theater of the White House. In the course of a two-hour practice session, Roman Popadiuk, a Foreign Service officer on loan to the press office, began boring in on Iranscam. The object was to make certain that Reagan would stay consistent, no matter how sharp the cross-examination. Popadiuk got so caught up in his role as a Sam Donaldson stand-in that Press Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater began to worry. "I thought we might all get kicked out," he said...