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Francis and Margot Macomber seem to be a happy couple: young, good-looking, famous, rich, envied and admired. Except they’re not. Their marriage is riddled with crises (he drinks, she has affairs), yet they remain stuck with each other for 11 years as they have “a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful for Macomber …
“Weight 136 lb” – this is the first truth about herself that Bridget Jones confesses in her diary on 1st January, now that she seems adamant to take control of her life. The resolution she makes is to “lose 20 pounds, obviously.” And it’s not because she wants to be fit and healthy …
Would you be willing to eat a worm? Would you be willing to get electric shocks? As bizarre as these questions may be, they were part of an experiment whose findings were revealed (among others) by the psychologists Ronald Comer and James D. Laird in a 1975 article. The experiment went like this: the subjects …
“Let’s take a picture. Go over there.” The eight- or nine-year-old girl was hopping on a patch of grass; she hopped to the rose bed indicated by her mother, humming cheerfully. When she stopped, she raised her hands in the summer air, smiling radiantly. “Stand properly.” The girl’s open palms didn’t move; her beaming smile …
Cast Away has Chuck as the main character who, surviving a plane crash, ends up on a deserted island. Having accidentally cut his hand, Chuck hits a volleyball and notices that the handprint resembles a human face. He touches it up and thus, the volleyball becomes his inseparable friend, Wilson, whom he talks to and …
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Late in the evening, a woman sits at a table in an empty restaurant, staring into her cup of coffee. Behind her is a window as large as a wall through which one sees nothing of the city’s life. This black rectangle intensely reflects two rows of ceiling lamps. Edward Hopper’s painting “Automat” (1927) conveys …
St Gregory of Nazianzus: “That which is not acknowledged cannot be healed.” A deformed face. The mouth opening in an oval of despair. The palms tightly covering the ears. The deafening scream reverberating from Edvard Munch’s iconic painting reveals the shock, fear and despair man can confront. To me, this is the scream of somebody …
What kind of relationships do you want? 