Already looked that up. It does not mean acting on stage in front of gaslights. It's in words file.
a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory, perception ...
Oh yeah, there was a movie about that.
Bryan Preston, pjmedia via Instapundit
Obama's pernicious week
(pro tip: press "view as single page" to pick up the dangling paragraph. Let me see if I'm right. Nope. Wrong. Nine more paragraphs.)
Preston says, "Worst Elizabeth Warren-esque riff ever to grate in a presidential address, here is Obama as history teacher.
And by the way, this isn’t a Democratic idea. Republicans built a lot of stuff. This is the Land of Lincoln. Lincoln was all about building stuff — first Republican President.
Maybe president as George Carlin.
It is a review of the things that annoy us . With additional seething at a comparison of Ho Chi Minh with American founders and Declaration of Independence with theirs of 1945.
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Larry?
Pernicious. Harsh.
Wikipedia, that gushing font, under clinical examples:
Psychologist Martha Stout states that sociopaths frequently use gaslighting tactics. Sociopaths consistently transgress social mores, break laws, and exploit others, but are also typically charming and convincing liars who consistently deny wrongdoing.
Sociopath. Liar. Pantalones. En fuego. Aflame. Incendiar. Flambé. En llamas. Afire. In flames. *wiggly fingers* * bouncing wiggly fingers*
Number seven and fifteen are the same, but that must be for a reason.
Oh, snap.
Btw, I loved that movie. It's still a stretch for me to believe that a babe the likes of Ingrid Bergman would fall for the smarmy Charles Boyer, but I adore me some Ingrid. I love that movie and Notorious in large part because Ingrid is so mesmerizing in them.
Yeah. Girl crush.
Speaking of Notorious[SPOILER ALERT]...do you think she dies?
I did. For years and years until a friend of mine convinced me that she doesn't. Grateful. =)
Perniciousness of his own making.
And he can try to minimize the scandals, but his polls show they're having a big effect.
Darcy said...
Btw, I loved that movie. It's still a stretch for me to believe that a babe the likes of Ingrid Bergman would fall for the smarmy Charles Boyer
In his day, Charlie was the epitome of the accomplished Continental lover.
I guess times change
Darcy, I think she dies. What was the friend's argument against? I love that movie. Chilling!
@Freeman
Yep. He said she clearly lives. Devlin saves her just in time. I prefer to believe she lives. Natch. :)
I thought gaslighting was something that guys did around a campfire with lighter after many beers.
Oh, I think it's clear she lives-- she's rescued just in time.
Otherwise the charm/ charge/ chill of the ending doesn't work.
The contrast is necessary: the one who is not rescued, who has no rescue, though he begs to be rescued, is mama's boy Claude Rains.
If she's going to die, who cares about Claude Rains. It's because she's going to live, because we know she's safe in Cary Grant's arms, that Claude Rains's fate (the fate of the villain)-- forced to go back to his waiting mother-- can affect us, haunt us.
A very Hitchcockian ambivalent edge to the ending there (he's going to get what he deserves, but we also feel sorry for him, the poor sap).
You liked it too, yashu!
Really quite a racy movie for that era. I think Blake told me that they had some challenges with the original kissing scene between the stars. It went right up to the edge of what would be censored.
Hays Code. I couldn't remember the name of what Blake referred to, but I looked it up.
Love Notorious. Such a complicated love story. Cary Grant played a hero, not villain, but IMO it's the darkest character/ role he ever played (that I know of).
I feel I should say something about Obama, too, but... at this point, what is there to say? I feel like I've been bludgeoned into numbness by his awfulness, the extreme awfulness of his administration. 5 years of lie after lie after lie, scandal after scandal after scandal-- with a mostly obeisant MSM, tepidly extenuating, eager to talk about anything else. It just makes one feel crazy.
Yes, gaslighted.
Gregory Anton: I don't ask you to understand me. Between us all the time were those jewels, like a fire - a fire in my brain that separated us - those jewels which I wanted all my life. I don't know why... Goodbye, Paula. I guess you are going back to American Idol.
(Gaslight, 1940)
Now I have to go back and re-watch Notorious. I loved that movie. But...Now, I'm unsure as to how it ended at all. Ingrid Bergman was a mesmerizing person.
I just want to say that you are knocking it out of the park with your blogging Chip. Short interesting posts that lead to great conversations. Really well done. Thank you for your efforts.
I thought gaslighting was something that guys did around a campfire with lighter after many beers.
I think that's the third definition in the dictionary, chick.
And very nice post, Chip, very nice.
Darcy said,
Speaking of Notorious[SPOILER ALERT]...do you think she dies?
Is that like choosing the former explanation of events in Life of Pi over the latter?
I can't remember how Notorious ends, so I will need to see it again to be sure. It's a great movie as is Gaslight.
LOL, Troop.
I hated Boyer's accent when he said "Paula".
I've never gone for Frenchies. I'm open to being persuaded, as always.
Oh, ha ha! I confused Notorious with Suspicion.
I do love Notorious too. I think she lives in that one.
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