Word: neuroticisms
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Chesterton was happiest in an arena he never really left: the nursery. The happy child turned into a neurotic adolescent haunted by unspecified guilts. He could only assuage them with religion. "Dogma," he was to conclude, "does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." The childless...
To stem the run on sterling, British banks last week raised base interest rates 1%, a gesture that should help encourage speculators to keep their money in Britain. As soon as she arrived from the airport, Thatcher met with a team of Treasury officials at her Downing Street office. Tired...
The various facets involved in Hoffman's performance are as founding Under layer number one he plays Dorsey a neurotic actor quickly approaching middle age. We see the tension that propels the desperate Dorsey through all his relationships. Unwilling to conform to other people's ideas, he can't take...
From then on, it was a performance, a repetition of various cheers, stunts, and intimidate-the-opposition tactics perfected over the years: the fans pretending to read newspapers when the Harvard team was introduced and throwing them in the air when the Big Red skated to center ice, the deafening...
Mostly because it is . . . well . . . still. For a movie about a series of gory knife murders (and that had the working title Stab), it has an oddly reverential hush about it. This seems to arise less from a regard for the Hitchcock tradition than from a quiet appreciation of its...