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...mood for the whole cycle. It's about one of those days when everything goes wrong. Steve (Steve Brodie), a decent Joe who's been married to loving Anne (Audrey Long) for four months, gets a call one evening to make some easy money driving his truck for Walt (Raymond Burr), a guy he used to know. The truck, Steve learns, is to be used for a heist, and when he protests he's forced into it, and spotted by the police. He gets away, but Walt's brother Al is picked up. Now Steve is on the bad side...
...long, slow middle passage, where Steve hides out with Anne's sturdy, Czech-American parents out in the heartland. But the movie smartly yanks itself back down into the murk, and ends with a sensational shot, in which the camera peers down a four-story stairwell, and Walt falls from the top flight, his body hitting and caroming off each railing. (Give a little wow of appreciation for the stunt crew...
Perhaps, then, it is not surprising that the Kennedy School’s Stephen M. Walt and the University of Chicago’s John J. Mearsheimer have become synonymous with one phrase—“The Israel Lobby”—a phrase that has come to symbolize their allegation that U.S. foreign policy reflects Israeli interests more than it does American ones...
Though it is much to soon to say if Walt and Mearsheimer’s contributions will equal those of Nye, Huntington, or Fukuyama, the duo’s paper certainly rivals any of the previous essays in terms of the controversy it has generated...
Though the tone of the debate was vitriolic immediately after the essay first appeared, the discussion has taken on a new tone. And only now—after the critics have spoken, Walt and Mearsheimer have responded, and the essay has been the subject of lengthy commentaries in various publications—is it possible to gain a rough sense of the essays’s influence...