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Some of these pyrotechnics fizzle, and all of them operate in a narrative void. One reason Psycho continues to disturb is that Screenwriter Joseph Stefano gave Norman Bates and his hapless victims some emotional resonance. Even if you never screamed while watching Psycho, you could appreciate it for the sense it gave of seemingly ordinary people drawn into a swamp of frustrations and aggressions. De Palma's movies no longer explore these tensions; they have become exhibitions of a master puppeteer pulling high-tension strings. In Dressed to Kill, the marionettes on-screen still respond to De Palma...
...lines of lucid, supple, periodic prose. In Grace and Caro, "a vein of instinct sanity opened and flowed: a warning that every lie must be redeemed in the end . . . In their esteem for dispassion they began to yearn, perverse and unknowing, towards some strength that would, in turn, disturb that equilibrium and sweep them to higher ground...
...When he have match'd our rackets to these balls,/ We will in France, by God's grace, play a set/ Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard/ Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler/ That all the courts of France will be disturb...
Aware that conducting this massive solicitation during the most severe financial strain in years may disturb alumni, officials kicked off the drive last October by stressing the need for Harvard to maintain quality control in these times. President Bok underscored this theme in his annual report...
Keenan is "perfectly satisfied" with Harvard's involvement in the project, and says today its connection with the Shah's government do not disturb him. But some criticize Harvard's involvement with RKSU. Shahrokh Rouhani an Iranian graduate student in the Division of Applied Sciences, says that while he doesn't disagree with the goal of enlightening a backward environment, a facility like RSKU "would actually have created an island in society." Rouhani argues that while "basic deficiencies" still plague Iran's high school system, a graduate research facility cannot benefit the Iranians...