Age of Anxiety
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Why is George Clooney's new generation of doomsday films so prominent
in the Oscar lineup? It's all about the manipulation of fear.
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek
Updated: 1:19 p.m. ET March 4, 2006
March 3, 2006 - The shrill electronic scream at the end of "Fail-Safe"
is the sound of the phone lines burning up as Moscow is hit with a
nuclear weapon. Both New York and the Russian capital have just been
sacrificed in a grim pact between the United States and the Soviets to
avoid an all-out nuclear holocaust. It's quite a scene, quite a movie,
and when the original film, directed by Sidney Lumet, came out in 1964
it seemed all too plausible.
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