Very few events are able to perturb an increasingly globalised world.

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But when nuclear weapons, environmentalism and genetics began to perturb Western public opinion in the 1960s, so more scientists followed Albert Einstein out of the academy and into the public arena.

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After all, it is hard to perturb a concierge.

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"The Bush Administration has been unable, or unwilling, to do more for Lithuania than issue mildly sympathetic statements, an audit trail for the record calculated neither to perturb the Soviets nor materially assist the captive nation Moscow wishes to continue to dominate, " said Frank J.

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But these playful supernatural elements don't gel with the movie's psychological pretensions, or its eager, addle-headed urge to shock and perturb.

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