Word: admittedly
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Alfred Hitchcock is 76 now, and the bemused, nightmarish thrillers he has concocted over the years have accomplished more than the director ever intended, perhaps even imagined. Hitchcock will admit to no loftier ambition than entertainment. Nonetheless, his best movies-The Wrong Man, Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds-reach into deep pockets of psychic guilt, creating not only a pleasant, fleeting rush of terror in an audience but also a lingering, fixed anxiety. He is a technical master. But the tense economy of his best scenes, the closely calibrated dynamics of his editing, have also shaped...
Even Ashbery's staunchest defenders admit that his work is difficult. A noted art critic as well as poet, Ashbery, 50, manipulates words as if they were daubs of paint, interesting not for their meaning but for their coloration...
...widely accepted definition of anorexia is not likely to emerge soon. Anorexic patients are perhaps too rare and too scattered to support large conclusive research studies; large hospitals admit only ten to twelve anorexic patients a year, people whose self-starvation has put their lives in danger, who have lost more than 20 per cent of their normal body weight...
Once the case gets to court, of course, a clever defense attorney turns Margaux's profession against her, forcing her to admit that she sometimes has used impure thoughts to get herself into the mood for a sexy photograph. The jury decides at once that this modern Jez ebel led this nice-looking lad on. Poor Anne Bancroft, as the prosecutor, rails angrily, but he gets off and a week later has at the kid sister - played by Margaux's real-life sibling Mariel, 14, who appears to have a modest natural gift for acting...
Jewett declined to admit that the rise indicates an increased emphasis on SAT scores by the admissions office, explaining instead that it reflects a higher average in the applicant pool. He did not have available figures on the averages of the pool...