Word: hauntedness
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TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a crack-house mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who bends the system to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the demonic intensity and haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally gifted actor who may be too edgy...
Reporters who are exposed to death on a regular basis can suffer some of the same psychological effects as grieving survivors. "Even though most reporters don't have a close personal relationship with anyone killed," says Vanderlyn Pine, a sociology professor at the State University of New York, "the grief...
Legislators are haunted by the specter of defeated colleagues, even those from another era. Jimmy Carter was still President when House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman lost a re-election bid in 1980, in part because of his advocacy of a value-added tax. But nearly a decade...
Robert Bolt's eloquent, epigrammatic script traces Lawrence's career from mapmaking in the British army's Cairo headquarters to masterminding Arab nationalism. In Peter O'Toole's pensive, swashbuckling incarnation, Lawrence makes for a curious messiah. With his skin like a mandarin orange dipped in sand, his voice intimate...
The difficulty with Goya is that for the past hundred years and more, he has been somewhat obscured by the Goyaesque. Our idea of him has been so much shaped by the Romantic sensibility that pervaded Europe after his death that we still like to see him as a death...