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Ruben did interrupt the flow of the film when he overplayed the early moments of tension. If the whole audience knows from the start that Culkin plays an undercover killer, then it's none too tricky to produce tense moments auguring imminent disaster. Ruben dwells on each scary mask, toy gun, and childish threat, until Culkin's every mouthful at dinner appears redolent of latent monomania...
...point of similarity with feminist art is that it is grounded in trauma. When Horn was a sculpture student in Hamburg in the late '60s, she worked with fiber glass and, unaware that the stuff is poisonous, neglected to use a mask. She ended up confined to a sanatorium for a year, isolated, with severely damaged lungs. When eventually she got back to work, Horn found herself thinking in terms of images of confinement -- cocoons, swaddling, bondage, prostheses. "When you are very isolated or alone," she remarks to the show's curator, Germano Celant, in a catalog interview, "you have...
...breasts and buttocks and inflatable dildos, all apparently in keeping with the bawdry of the original style. In a further attempt to evoke antique comedy, or at least its descendants in vaudeville and burlesque, Hall interpolates music, dance and choral antics. The most modern moment has James remove her mask to confront the audience about global tolerance of violence. Translator Ranjit Bolt, who also worked with Hall in Tartuffe, displays equal sensitivity to Aristophanes' world and to contemporary parallels in, say, Bosnia...
...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...
...launched Katyusha rockets into Israel proper and generally stepped up its operations. The group has got much better at what it does, more energetic and more professional. Israeli intelligence says the guerrillas have acquired improved armaments, including Russian Sagger antitank missiles. They have learned to coordinate several feints to mask a swoop on their real target. "They are now more sophisticated in their modus operandi," said a senior Israeli officer...