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...campaign film celebrating Jimmy Carter ended and the lights went up, the convention podium remained empty while the band played Hail to the Chief. That void was only partially filled when the chief finally emerged, grinning and waving his arms. Somehow he failed to measure up to expectations. His acceptance speech was not electrifying; its voltage, in fact, was low. Said Laurence Radway, a professor of government at Dartmouth College and former chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party: "In the past, Carter has been partly an engineer and partly an evangelical -an evangelical engineer. In his acceptance speech...
Some of these pyrotechnics fizzle, and all of them operate in a narrative void. One reason Psycho continues to disturb is that Screenwriter Joseph Stefano gave Norman Bates and his hapless victims some emotional resonance. Even if you never screamed while watching Psycho, you could appreciate it for the sense it gave of seemingly ordinary people drawn into a swamp of frustrations and aggressions. De Palma's movies no longer explore these tensions; they have become exhibitions of a master puppeteer pulling high-tension strings. In Dressed to Kill, the marionettes on-screen still respond to De Palma...
...Those who are irresponsible in a time of crisis, including economic crisis, are those who cannot and will not act," Dole said in a sharp rejoinder to Carter's accusations of earlier in the week. He added, a touch snidely, that Reagan and the GOP "have filled the leadership void in Washington...
...studies to corporations and government agencies, turns his talents to a broader field-humanity itself. After careful study of his previously discovered laws, he has reached the conclusion that Parkinson's Law is merely one aspect of a more general Law. "Action," declares Parkinson, "expands to fill the void created by human failure...
This observation is both more entertaining and more disturbing than his earlier ones. For as Parkinson formulates new laws, nations East and West grow increasingly unable to negotiate. The action that rushes in to fill this void could be one that has occurred many times before. It goes by the name...