Word: soliloquy
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...particular, one final twist--are so shocking and bewildering that Hitchcock felt the need to include a scene with a shrink to explain it all at the end. This is the one scene where the suspense, held so masterfully up until this point (and afterwards in Norman's final soliloquy), breaks. Some silly guy swings his finger around and ties it all up nicely for us. But keep in mind that most thrillers--even Hitchcock films--have numerous scenes that merely establish the context for suspense to come, while "Psycho' manages to build suspense with suspense itself. Like an unappeasable...
...material, McElwee shapes the story, editing to convey the emotions he wants. He admits that he has an "obsession with filming"; he finds it "frightening and humorous at the same time. I don't exempt myself, I am as neurotically obsessed with it as anybody." He ends this soliloquy with the question that seems to epitomize his rationale for action: "Why not turn the camera in on yourself where no one else...
...performance on the Senate floor last week was no better. On Monday, summoned to debate the diaries, Senators listened to Packwood deliver a rambling, ranting soliloquy that basically charged the committee with prying into his private life. Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski countered, "We are not the Senate Select Committee on Voyeurism." When the droning debate tied up Senate business for a second full day, legislators grew impatient. Finally Tuesday evening, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia implored his embattled colleague to sacrifice himself for the larger good: "None of us is without flaws. But when those flaws damage the institution...
...talk at a bookstore in Berkeley, California, he was confronted by Cherie Chichester-Glass, a veteran elementary school teacher. "I've read your book and listened to you talk," said the teacher. "Hell, how do we put this into practice in the classroom?" West replied with a rambling soliloquy about the need to set priorities and then call on the experts to fill in the details. His response left Chichester-Glass exasperated. "I think he's a man of prophetic strengths," she said, "but it's also obvious he's never set foot in an elementary school classroom...
...Sessionses have not been been shy about taking their case to the press. In late January, after the Justice Department report was issued, Sessions invited a dozen reporters to his office. He engaged in a bitter soliloquy in which he asserted that his nemesis Barr "was in league with others" to do him in. Although Sessions declined to be interviewed for this story, his wife told TIME, "All I have done is stand by my honest man. I know what Bill Sessions is, and I know what he does and doesn't do. We were raised middle- class Midwest...