Word: distinguisher
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...night, student overseers at all but one of the dances enforce a dress code. Swing and ball-room music dominates at a few affairs. At another semi-formal, students contort themselves to the latest discotheque tunes in a hall so dark that it would have been impossible to distinguish between tuxedos and clean football jerseys. Many at the semi-formal compare the atmosphere to that of the 1920s. "It's the same old song put to different music," one student complains. "Why couldn't I have been here six years ago when Yale and Harvard didn't mean...
...comes when they have to translate what they have learned into testimony that meets legal requirements. The M'Naghten rule, first announced in 1843 and still part of California's standard, asks whether the defendant knew "the nature and quality of his act" and was able to distinguish right from wrong. In 1954 the Durham rule, formulated by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, greatly broadened the psychiatric defense by declaring that a person is not criminally responsible "if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect." In a refinement of both rules...
...reading runs aground on the love story which comprises the second half of the film. Once Raffaella accepts subjugation, in a cathartic scene where she kisses Gennarino's feet after he has symbolically thrust a stake through a skinned rabbit, the comedy is dissipated. Using the graceful closeups which distinguish her style, Wertmuller evokes the intensity and eroticism of a great love affair so subtly and effectively as to make Last Tango in Paris seem like a mouthwash commercial. The subjective gaze of the camera and the expressive interaction of the actors combine to compel the audience to identify strongly...
Finally, she felt her mind clouding and feared that she was losing her sanity. "She was unable to distinguish between what was real and what was imaginary . . . Among the things that served to deprive her of her sanity was the statement, repeated to her many times, that her mother and father had abandoned her, that they had offered a reward of $50,000 to have her brought in, dead or alive, and that they were working with the FBI to destroy...
...have on a book if one is simply interested in marketing a name brand. But Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt, has considerably more on his mind. He has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Eden Express is his attempt to describe the slippage in and out of madness, to distinguish between the chaos in his head and the confusion of the world and, finally, to achieve a balance between romantic myths about sick minds and the cold evidence that his own disorder is the product of abnormal body chemistry. The result is not one of those bonkers-and-back melodramas...