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...most noticeable features is what lacks: a soundtrack. Virtually free of artificial sound, viewers experience the barren vistas of south Texas as McCarthy intended—an antediluvian void where angels exist, but far more devils can be found. In the midst of the total quiet, tension swells, revelations spread, and the great, monolithic equilibrium of chance reigns free. Set in 1980, the plot centers around Josh Brolin’s character, a hunter and Vietnam veteran who stumbles upon a suitcase containing several million dollars, left in the desert unclaimed when a drug deal goes bad. Brolin quickly finds...
...easy task - some liken the job to straddling barbed wire, or to being a skunk at a garden party. The IG must maintain a good working relationship with the agency director but at the same time maintain independence. At the CIA, for instance, there is always tension when headquarters staff investigate field operatives, who often complain that the Langley suits don't understand field conditions, says Frederick Hitz, CIA IG from 1990 1998 and now a lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. "That accusation is leveled at every...
...Still, Lmrabet is skeptical about the brouhaha. "This isn't about foreign policy - it's for domestic consumption," he says. In his view, the Moroccan government gains something from the ongoing tension with its neighbor across the Mediterranean. In September parliamentary elections, only 37% of eligible voters went to the polls. The low turnout - the worst in the country's history - was widely interpreted as a sign that voters felt irrelevant to the political process. "It's not unusual for Morocco to whip up nationalist sentiment when it wants to create a distraction from the country's real problems," says...
...helpless against a hardened guerilla group that Turkey itself has failed to defeat in over 20 years of war - Turkey rejects these claims of helplessness, pointing out that the Iraqi Kurdish authorities have not even acted to cut off supply lines to the guerrilla movement's camps.) Amid rising tension, the Turks have threatened cross-border military action against the PKK, and also to close their side of the Ibrahim Kalil border crossing as punishment...
...Gammons stresses the script’s tendency toward disintegration, generally starting each scene at a low-key pace, then amping up the tension, the speed, and the non-realistic lighting and sound as it progresses. In general, this effect lends a welcome sense of momentum, but at times near the beginning, when the play is simply laying groundwork and indulging in verbal gymnastics, it is unnecessary...