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As David Plotz reported: "Dalmatians are high-strung.
I thought of Hoffman the other day as I watched The Insider , the forthcoming All the President's Men -ish movie in which Al Pacino plays a crusading high-strung TV news producer.
It gains much, however, from a subplot featuring Nathalie Richard as Zoe, a high-strung lesbian costume designer who's too shy to put the moves on Maggie.
Spacey acts with "heavenly finesse" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ), and Annette Bening as his high-strung wife is "spectacular" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The director, Sam Mendes, and writer, Alan Ball, are new to film--they're stage and television veterans, respectively--and many critics say that's why the film feels so fresh.
A later mutation is Type A, he writes, that of people adapting to an agrarian diet, who were cooperative, law-abiding, yet high-strung.