Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I came to the shower scene, I braced myself to be disappointed this brief passage has gotten so much attention that it will have to be a downer, I figured. Not so. In a series of astonishing cuts (of two different kinds), Hitchcock gets away with, well, murder. He shows us the approach of Mother through the shower curtain, which would theoretically dull the effect of the attack that follows, without lessening the primal terror we feel when she does attack one bit. The shower runs throughout the scene (and well into the following one), draining the blood...
...With brief intervals of protests, thedivestment campaign quieted again until a seriesof meetings and rallies in the spring...
...After a brief stint at Harvard Law School,Israel earned his Ph.D. in Harvard's psychologydepartment. He later did his post-doctoral work atHarvard with Skinner...
...divine status, the image of the perfection to those surrounding her: on the other hand, leads a temporary and contingent existence. She will retain her somewhat exalted only so long as she remains within the ambit of Irene. Likewise, her love affairs, if they could be so called, are brief, occuring between the end-points of a voyage; one takes place in the corridor of a train, and the other in the hold of a boat...
...brief address, Ching also called ethnic studies "an academic field that's been ignored here...