Since the late 1990s, with works like "House," "Boxing 2000" and "The End of Reality," Mr. Maxwell has systematically drained the surface tension from traditionally tense, highly dramatic contexts (espionage, prize fighting, street violence).
Behind its thick walls unfolds a dramatic tale of espionage, murder and intrigue involving Frida's friend and lover, Leon Trotsky.
The jittery accounts of the accused men reveal dramatic stories of espionage: furtive meetings with handlers; disguising themselves as Taliban fighters, fruit sellers or even heroin addicts; payments of $150 to $450 per drone strike; and placing American-supplied electronic tracking devices, often wrapped in cigarette foil, near the houses and cars of Qaeda fugitives.
The Swedish state security police, or SAPO, is getting pretty worried about a dramatic uptick in Russian espionage activity in Sweden, according to leaks in the Swedish press.
The most dramatic act of cyber-espionage is believed to have been a joint project by the US and Israel in which the Stuxnet computer virus was used against Iran.
Though commissioned to make films to raise morale in occupied France, Hitchcock instead created two dramatic stories characterized by his customary ingredients: espionage, suspense and murder.
Cosby paved the way for African-American entertainers by becoming the first black co-star in a dramatic television series on the "I Spy" espionage series, and later broke down barriers with his widely successful sitcom "The Cosby Show".
The advent of cyberspace has led to a dramatic increase in state-sponsored political and economic espionage.
Then there are the rushes some of which involve the realization, on location, of some of these hallucinatory effects, but most of which are dramatic scenes from a marriage, involving Marcel's increasingly frenzied espionage of his wife as she cavorts, innocently or not, with others, and his confrontations with her over them.
An outbreak of acerbic name-calling has been aggravated by accusations of hacking and espionage by opposition parties, which led this week to the dramatic resignation of the Liberal Party secretary.
