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There were a (scanty) few lapses in the production’s overall energy. The scenes set in Undine’s parents’ apartment ought to have been fraught with tension or frustration—after all, Undine has come home after over a decade of pretending that her family is dead—but they evoke instead a feeling of boredom...
...wholly uninteresting, poorly drawn relationship between the jaded protagonist, CIA operative Roger Ferris, and Alice Melville, a naïve charity worker who helps Palestinian refugees. What could be a thrilling story gets mired in the mundane details, particularly domestic spats between Roger and his wife Gretchen. While the tension begins to build at the end, the surprises that ensue seem to be almost gratuitous, for, by that point, the plot is so fatigued that even the jolt of energy cannot save it. One would think that as a journalist, an observer, Ignatius would have come to understand his fellow...
...resistance. An able temptress and a contemplative soul, she adopts a dour disposition as willingly as she strips for her assigned Nazi boytoy Ludwig Müntze. Verhoeven, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gerard Soeteman, tries to make de Vries’ relationship a source of ethical tension, but the film overflows with so much sex that the audience almost forgets about the crimes Müntze commits as a high-ranking SS officer. As Müntze, Sebastian Koch (van Houten’s real-life companion) disarms the audience with his character’s odd humanism...
...chairman Henry Waxman, who has spearheaded the e-mail investigation. Afterwards Waxman called the revelation that the e-mails might have been lost "a remarkable admission that raises serious legal and security issues," adding that, "The White House has an obligation to disclose all the information it has." Already, tension has built over this last question; the White House believes that even RNC-retained e-mails, if they were between two White House staffers, are privileged executive branch documents that should not be turned over to the Hill, while Democrats insist any document at the RNC is subject...
Albright, who published the book “The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs” in 2006, also spoke about the need to recognize religion as a deep-rooted source of tension in the Middle East, saying the U.S. should “return to job as an honest broker” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...