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As a tragically repressed and alcoholic small-town cop, Nolte conveys a "fierce, anguished intensity" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Critics say Schrader's style is a perfect match for Russell Banks' novel, and that the director "has hit, in this exquisitely shaped, paced, painted, and edited production, a new, deep level of artistry" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Only complaint: The voice-over narration by Willem Dafoe (as Nolte's brother) is a bit stilted and portentous.
The pair of models who try to pick up Dr. Harford have dialogue so stilted that it could have been written by David Mamet.
Unfortunately for Gore, the press is likely to focus more on his stilted campaigning than his eight years of insider experience.
What social historians of the future may find most notable about Leno's joke is not what it says about popular perceptions of Bill Clinton's sex life, but what it says about the language of air travel, and how its sui-generis vocabulary ("seat pocket," "ground personnel," "emergency flotation"), its stilted constructions ("We are now ready to pre-board those passengers who ..."
There's a big dollop of xenophobia here--old mummy pictures are full of stilted English actors pretending to be icily vengeful Egyptians--but there's also a less chauvinistic implication: a rebuke to our Western-imperialist sense of entitlement.