Word: factualism
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This comes as no great surprise. While Hitchcock's talent lay in planting even the most implausible action within plots that were enclosed in, and aerated by, chilly factual details, DePalma has always submerged his stories under a torrent of extravagant stylistic effects, ditching Hitchcock's logic, his psychological insight, his mooring in the specific tension and atmosphere of a given situation or place. He shares Hitchcock's cynicism about human relations, but he has none of the sly, mordant perception that makes this cynicism persuasive and disquieting. In Dressed to Kill he dispenses with Psycho's emotional complications...
...claims patient package inserts [May 19] are perfect, but they certainly are better than ignorance. As a community pharmacist for 15 years, I know that any factual information is the patient's first line of defense...
...students want to know more than how Harvard works. Though some students do fall into the two extreme groups Fox cites--at one pole requesting only factual information, at the other demanding that the University make decisions for them--most fall into the middle group, wanting that elusive Faculty contact simply because they believe their education will improve by spending time with professors...
...second distinguishing characteristic of the Core, Rosovsky says, is an underlying emphasis in the courses on "modes of inquiry" into areas of knowledge. "The important thing is not for students to learn certain facts--though it's important to have a factual background--but to understand how various areas, disciplines and approaches deal with the world. I think that's really the common denominator," Rosovsky says...
...apparent contradictions arise only if you accept Government spokesmen as being 100% factual. Surely you don't buy the HEW line that it only takes the Federal Government 12? to deliver $1 to the needy...