In Andrew Upton's streamlined adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1890 text, we find ourselves less in the playwright's horrifying world of domestic terror, manipulation, and shame than in another Hepburn vehicle: Philip Barry's 1939 drawing-room comedy, "The Philadelphia Story".
And far from enjoying the popularity suggested in your news story (A year on, Ahmadinejad's popularity is soaring, June 21), the regime is struggling to enforce its position through terror and manipulation.
The Islamic State are like the Baathists all over again, he added — perhaps not the same people, but people who are using similar kinds of terror, brutality, and religious manipulation.
Mr. Shyamalan manipulates us into a state of anxious terror before announcing that such manipulation is not only his method, but also his theme.
America has been at war for a decade now; is it really a coincidence that the biggest movie of the year is the first in a trilogy in which torture, terror, asymmetric warfare, and the manipulation of public opinion all play a role?
Like them, they appear to have an interest in terror as a means of social manipulation.
It's the kind of bored manipulation you come to expect from the Plastics, the pack of hallway-shrewd and glamorous teenage queens who use subtle terror to rule the high school that Cady (Ms. Lohan) attends.
They represented a new mercilessness, both in their use of political violence and in their manipulation of the media to spread terror.
The governing moods are grief, guilt, anxiety and what David calls "psychological terror". Nic is skilled at lying and emotional manipulation.
Mr. Schroeder's only obvious manipulation is in his use of Jorge Arriagada's score, which gives "Terror's Advocate" the sinister, foreboding ambience of a thriller.
