Word: normale
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...field of research known as arousal studies. A major assumption of researchers is that a broad curve traces the susceptibility to stimulation in the general population: at one end of the spectrum are those who need excitation; at the other end are people who feel so overwhelmed by the normal stimulation of everyday life that they devote themselves to avoiding any further stress, risk or adventure. This avoidance group would include those who are comfortable with routine, and perhaps agoraphobics. Farley thinks schizophrenics and the autistic might belong in the non-T category as well, although available evidence is inconclusive...
Siskel (unfastening the clips of his cravatte): "How can you say such things? Just look at the body count for Part 5 alone: 15 normal on--camera hackings, four off--camera carvings of which we only see the results, three dream slicings which we view in all their glory, and three half dicings where we are never sure if the the weapon actually reaches the victims. Over 60 disembowellments and skull-crushings in the first five series. God, Roger, this is the sort of stuff that goes on out there...
THERE COMES A TIME when a we need a certain call, a seductive vet calculated earnestness amidst the normal audible drivel of AM car radios that can only be the product of supposedly good intentions meeting high-powered marketing...
...self-help of the title refers only very tangentially to the mass-market platitudes of the subgenere whose parameters are delimited by the disparate likes of Normal Vincent Peale and Alex (joy of sex) Comfort The idea of the self-help manual provides Moore with her most potent and original stylistic device: six of the nine stories in the book are cast in that least-employed from of narrative, yhe second person, The irony, of course, is that this form of address comes not by way of advice and is not at all directed towards the reader Far from being...
...least 22 months testifying intermittently at three separate trials in Wisconsin and Illinois after her son's murder. She helped organize a Parents of Murdered Children group, which offers counseling. Says she: "I thought I was ready to be committed, but I found out that my feelings were normal...