As Sheriff, Vaughn ( like Michael Keaton, whom he sometimes resembles ) projects a deep-seated skepticism and chilliness that give the story its suspense; he seems quite capable of keeping his distance and leaving Lewis to die.
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During most of his career he was attacked for the predictable reasons ( chilliness, fussiness, exaggeration of form ) by critics, whose words he stewed over for years and whose attacks sometimes made it painful for him to work.
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There is an aloofness to director Martha Fiennes'adaptation of Aleksandr Pushkin's 150-year-old tragedy about infatuation and loss, but it's hard to fault her for the chilliness that permeates her stunning movie.
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As rebelliously up front about his sexual identify as Robert Mapplethorpe but without the photographer's fashionable chilliness or celebrity status, Wojnarowicz was a pioneer of sorts but suspicious of the " pre-invented story " that seems to be overtaking him.
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The performances, however, are of a stately, antiseptic nature; Ms . Chalfant, though in silky white nightgown a vision out of Tennessee Williams, does not appear to have been encouraged to overcome a chilliness that makes her tragic predicament seem remote.
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Janet Maslin of " The New York Times " wrote : " As Sheriff, Mr . Vaughn projects a deep-seated skepticism and chilliness that give the story its suspense; he seems quite capable of keeping his distance and leaving Lewis to die.
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But the production's disquieting chilliness, enhanced by Desmond Heeley's exquisite, silvery set, needs to be offset with an infusion of old-fashioned, pulse-racing histrionics, especially if it's to come to Broadway, as the festival hopes.
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Chilliness, even mockery, of course, are nothing new to Kundera's writing, but in earlier books like " The Joke " and " Laughable Loves, " which were set in Soviet-dominated Central Europe, humor was highly subversive.
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As if to dispel any lingering chilliness, the couple have filled El Paradiso with homey bric-a-brac and exotic souvenirs : Balinese wood carvings, Indian throw pillows, miniature plates inscribed with Copenhagen's " Little Mermaid, " oil paintings of Paris'Sacre Coeur church.
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But the new administration would do well to avoid any return to the petulant chilliness that sometimes characterized the administration of the elder George Bush, as when his secretary of state, James Baker, haughtily instructed Israel's leaders, " when you're ready for peace, call us, " and read aloud the White House telephone number.
