FRENZY. The English word frenzy comes through the Latin phrenesis from the Greek phren, meaning the midriff, the heart, the upper part of the body, the diaphragm, the lungs or pericardium—that is, that part of the body held responsible for...

Frenzy (1972) is a crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin. The film was marketed with the tagline "From the Master of Shock! A...

FEEDING FRENZY. By Larry Sabato. Free Press; 306 pages; $22.95 "THE journalists of the United States possess a vulgar turn of mind. The American journalist abandons principles to assail the characters of individuals, to track them into private life and disclose all...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - "Well, I made it," the pasty-skinned caller says into the pay telephone in the lobby of the Holiday Inn, spring home of the Boston Red Sox. "Not a bad flight. Crowded, but no delays. I just wanted to wish you...

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Thousands of people line up at the Berlin Zoo each day to see Knut the polar bear cub, and his button-eyed face has become inescapable for many others who live far from the capital.Knutmania is in full swing in Germany, where the fluffy baby bear...

Frenzy is Hitchcock's most pessimistic film. It is a portrait of a fallen world, a modern wasteland where moral values have entirely disappeared, the landscape has been defaced and polluted, and man (always, for Hitchcock, a very imperfect thing) has been beaten down and dehumanized so thoroughly that no redeeming qualities are left. (p. 1) Frenzy develops around a thematic structure common to many of Hitchcock's films: the hero (man or woman; in this case a man) gets caught up, usually by acc...