Word: vaulting
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Cezanne's sublimation produces not flesh but a kind of architecture. Yet this architecture is incontrovertible. Its scale is increased by the overarching trees, which supply a Gothic vault, and by the high, cloud-laden sky. And the final effect is one of exhilaration at the sight of the old man in his last year of life winning from his turmoil an equilibrium that was truly classical, and yet hiding so little of the inner compulsions that drove its making...
Brannon, for instance, was called upon to run the triple jump at the outdoor meet with Yale, an effort which may have caused his second-place finish in the pole vault...
...McGuffin, a mole, a master criminal. Many minor characters of menacing mien, dubious loyalty and short life expectancy. Computer and explosive technology to die for (many will). An imperturbably resourceful undercover agent (in this case Tom Cruise) who must, among other strenuous chores, penetrate a supposedly impregnable vault wherein reposes a secret, sacred document that everybody else is pursuing too. And last but not least: a helicopter/train chase ending in the predictable fireball that equally predictably fails even to singe Cruise's beetle brows...
...worst haircut ever worn in public by a major movie star? How does a supposedly desperate team of rogue spooks acquire all the exotic, expensive equipment they need to support their complicated activities? I mean, how do you rent a fire truck, vital to the burgling of the aforementioned vault--located at CIA headquarters in Virginia--when you're calling long distance from Prague? Finally, why did director Brian De Palma permit Vanessa Redgrave to act in this movie? She's good and funny as a woman of a certain age, and an evil genius besides, reduced to mewing kittenishness...
...Games present risks as well, including a terrorist attack. With such a calamity in mind, Vice President Gore and Clinton counselor Thomas F. ("Mack") McLarty are carefully overseeing the Games. Gore recently spent three hours in a bug-proof FBI vault questioning agents about their security plans. Almost 10,000 U.S. soldiers are slated to supplement workers in jobs where unscreened temps could make mischief, from bus drivers to cooks. The Federal Emergency Management Agency paid for some 110 Georgia state and local officials to attend a weekend course where they practiced how they would handle problems from mass heat...