Word: tortuous
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...most significant message of the day may have been put forward by the lead Temptation, the natty, gray-maned Barry Richard. (Think of Baker as the band's manager.) Amid the legalese about the tortuous contest-phase give-and-take between the legal teams, Richard emerged with a plea very similar to Al Gore's: Be patient, because this is going to take a while...
...stories and jokes. The all-too-human exchange ended when Issa came in and ordered silence, believing it would be harder for the Palestinians to kill their captives if they'd engaged them as human beings. And that's a lesson both sides learned two decades later in their tortuous peace process. They may disagree on fundamentals, but their ongoing conversation makes it a lot harder to imagine going back...
...persuade the two sides to move closer on the three critical issues that would have to be settled at a summit: the borders of a new Palestinian state, the number of Palestinian refugees who would be allowed to return, and who would have sovereignty over Jerusalem. In between those tortuous negotiations were constant squabbles over the transfers of Israeli occupied territory in the West Bank that Arafat had been promised two years earlier...
...wife, Gertrude (Diane Venora), which understandably angers her son, Hamlet (Ethan Hawke). Torn between concerns for his mother and spurred by a visit from his father's ghost, our protagonist seeks to uncover the truth of his father's death by feigning madness. Couple Hamlet's anxiety to a tortuous romance with Ophelia (Julia Stiles) and meddling from her father (Bill Murray), and the plot unfolds from there. Or rather implodes, because Hamlet's acted lunacy causes the downfall of his carefully crafted yuppie world...
...attempts the task. While the choice to turn Hamlet into a filmmaker nicely modernizes his dramatic obsession, Hawke simply isn't talented or mature enough to tackle such a weighty work. Where Hamlet should be plaintive and forthright, he seems surly and bratty, and where the part calls for tortuous introspection, Hawke settles into a lifeless, gravelly monotone. For the most part, Hawke doesn't seem to know the implications of what he's saying. Accordingly, little chemistry develops with Ophelia because Stiles spends much of her screen time pouting and skulking. The only discernable reason that...