Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...about his total wealth, Bunker Hunt replied in a manner that recalled J.P. Morgan's famous quote that people who have to ask the cost of the annual upkeep of yachts cannot afford them. Said he: "I don't have the figures in my head. People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much...
Then there is Hitchcock's masterly alternation of objective and subjective points of view in almost every scene. The first is used to present the audience with a few scary facts that the protagonist does not know. Then Hitchcock cuts to the subjective, showing events from the protagonist's incomplete point of view. Thus insinuated into the hero's shoes?or sometimes the villain's?the director could induce agonies of suspense in the viewer...
...convenient anecdotes he liked to relate ? being locked in a jail cell for five minutes, so he would know what happened to bad little boys, his fear of canings at his Jesuit preparatory school ? may not have shaped him totally. But surely he sensed, as he studied commercial art in his young manhood, that through art, it was possible to order things more agreeably than reality does...
...pleased if people find me more trustworthy than others-that's what we're all about in this business," he says. Besides, the trustworthiness is in the impartiality: "As soon as you start to delineate your positions, you'd start to lose them. Another factor: I know I can't make compromises to suit the people that would put me up, that I'd have taken money from." Even so, he is tempted. Unlike most political reporters he thinks campaigning, and the plaudits that come with it, would be fun, and that "it might...
What affects them is not the summer heat, but the cultural humidity, which Ann Beattie maintains just this side of a dramatic downpour. The single break in her purposefully oppressive atmosphere occurs when John Joel plinks his sister in the side with a gun he did not know was loaded. It is the sort of casual, thoughtless act usually associated with children. But then most of Beattie's grownups, particularly her men, behave in childish ways...