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Luz de gas Desde siempre la mayoría de nuestros políticos se afanan, cual hábiles prestidigitadores, en hacernos ver una realidad filantrópica y desinteresadamente mejorada por ellos, que poco tiene que ver con la que nos golpea a diario. Pero hasta cierto punto hemos ido asumiendo este trampantojo, resignándonos incluso a comulgar con alguna rueda de molino. Pero es que últimamente los trucos les están saliendo rematadamente mal, y cada vez es más difícil aceptar lo que se ha venido en llamar posverdades en la jerga politiquesa, trolas en román paladino. Porque cuando nos aseguran que ya nos hemos librado de la última pandemia, o que disfrutamos de un bienestar privilegiado, cuando lo que percibimos nosotros es que se se siguen muriendo nestros amigos o que no amaina un chorreo de infortunios que nos está empapando hasta el tuétano, creo que ha llegado el momento de poner pie en pared. Y de decir basta a un tipo de manipulación que además tien
Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight (1944) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Caution: potential spoilers ahead for ‘The Girl on the Train’.
The recent Netflix release
The Girl on the Train is an official adaptation of Paula Hawkins’s novel of the same name. The bestseller revolved around a concept introduced in a play in 1938 that was made widely known by movie adaptations in 1940 and 1944.
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Gas Light gave the English vocabulary a ready shorthand term to describe psychological damage caused by sustained emotional manipulation and deception. The word “gaslighting” is now commonly used to refer to a form of abuse that makes the targets party to their own destruction. Gaslighting is a state especially familiar to women, who are often told by the men in their lives that they don’t know or mean what they say and are being needlessly anxious or paranoid.
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Feb. 3, 2021
Israeli actress Haya Harareet, who became a star around the world in 1959 after portraying Esther, the hero’s love interest in the blockbuster masterpiece “Ben-Hur,” died Wednesday at her home in Buckinghamshire, England. She was 89.
Harareet was one of the first Israeli actors to break into Hollywood, but she couldn’t sustain her success and retired in the ‘60s. Her niece Tamar Tessler, who lives in Israel, said Harareet died overnight in her sleep. Her ashes will be scattered in Israel.
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Haya Harareet. Despite her MGM contract she failed to retain her stardom.Credit: Harry Pot