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...Reign of Terror and He Walked by Night may not be the most satisfying of film noir tales, but they are surely the noiriest in their artful oppressiveness, their connoisseurship of violence, their sense of the world as a rat trap with rancid cheese as the bait. The westerns Mann made with James Stewart - Bend of the River, The Naked Spur, The Far Country - constitute the strongest body of work, for that time, in that uniquely American form. El Cid is, to my mind, among the very finest of epic films, second only, perhaps, to Lawrence of Arabia...
...Clearly, whatever Israel does to respond, time is of the essence. Golan says that if a campaign in Lebanon began to drag and people started thinking they were looking at a reprise of 1982 - or that they'd "been dragged into a trap by Hamas and Hizballah"- the current strong support could evaporate. Some opinion polls taken during the Gaza soldier kidnapping standoff, but before the Hizballah attack, had already shown that Israelis want the government to negotiate some sort of solution, releasing prisoners if need be, as it has done in the past. Olmert has vowed determination and perseverance...
...floor calling for the withdrawal of troops by the end of the year, hoping to expose the split among Democrats. Only six Democrats voted for the provision. The House, meanwhile, spent more than 13 hours debating a non-binding resolution, framed by the GOP and obviously designed as a trap for Democrats. It said that the House "honors the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces and of partners in the Coalition" and declares "that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror." But such general sentiments were combined with two more controversial propositions: explicitly linking Iraq...
...recalls Katin's mother, Esther Levy, who takes care of two-year-old Miriam alone in Nazi-occupied Budapest while her husband fights in the Hungarian army. The book opens with the urbane and middle class Esther sharing coffee with her best friend, discussing how the Nazi death trap was closing in. "I received an order to hand over the dog today," she says, as Miriam feeds ice cream to little Rexy. First denied their pets, the Jews of Budapest are soon commanded to leave behind all their possessions and report to the ghetto. Hearing rumors of round-ups from...
...character, after killing herself, muses over the state of the nation from the “Netherworld.”“The first step of impulse in the Miss Witherspoon play was thinking about reincarnation,” he says. “What an awful trap that would be.” The play, along those lines, explores how today’s world might not be so inviting to return to.Durang’s other plays toy with similarly sacrosanct themes. “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which also...