The human brain was not built to receive and process the ever-present, nonstop safety threats that we are constantly bombarded with.
Or perhaps it was the way it was presented, in nonstop flashback, as opposed to being gradually and elliptically revealed via the present scene.
Writing in The New York Times on Monday, Janet Maslin said the book's "main characters are scorchingly well rendered," adding that "their sharp-clawed machinations are presented with nonstop verve in a book that can compress a wealth of incisiveness into a very few well-chosen words".
The screenplay, by Mr. Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart, is a model of its kind, in which Ed and Beth's search for Charles is developed in a series of scenes that seamlessly join past and present actions into a nonstop, forwardmoving narrative.
And so they did, in a way that combined dance and drama in works such as The Prisoners (set to music by Bartok), Nonstop and Wedding Present that dealt with sex, murder and desire in a way that has perhaps never since been equalled.
"Trap-house" has swiftly moved to form a symbiotic relationship with commercial big room sounds, presenting a finished product of nonstop trap arms and brain orgasmia.
The simmering conflict between Nasser and Amer came to the fore here, and officers present reported the pair burst into "a nonstop shouting match".
"Do you do a lot of training?" I envisioned him constantly drinking tea with honey and singing scales nonstop from the '60s to the present day in order to maintain his range.
So instead of nonstop red carpet gowns, the designer presented after-dark dresses of a different kind.
"Right tomorrow I want to be working," Mr. Fox told an American journalist in between nonstop interviews handled over his ever-present cell phone.
In an era of nonstop celebrity media coverage, Manziel has been presented to the country in one misadventure after another this off-season.
