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In the Washington Post , Susan Cheever questions the "understanding" the Dickeys reach at book's end, as does Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of the New York Times, who claims "the book offers incomplete catharsis."
has neither the style of Strictly Ballroom nor the cheap catharsis of Dirty Dancing . But the clunkiness is director Masayuki Suo's way of stopping to make sure that he's emotionally accurate.
Asking whether the report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission "has deepened the divisions it was intended to close or whether it will provide a necessary catharsis," the Financial Times of London said Thursday that, "at first glance, the omens are inauspicious."
There's no such thing as catharsis: Come once, you'll want to come again and again and again.
I don't want to punish him or have a national catharsis.