Word: actualizing
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...trouble is, we want that in the real world, too. As the “Saw” franchise really started to heat up with the third release, the media responded with a flurry of articles about how torture porn raises our appetite for actual torture—quick, painful, cheap justice. President Bush tried to sell us his own Jigsaw level of certitude, marketing himself as the decider, the protector of the homeland, the banisher of the evil-doers, and we elected him—twice. Last week proved that we’ve learned our lesson: Absolute justice...
From that suspended moment--with the smell of revelation in the air but the actual article nowhere to be found, as if the author had accidentally left it in his other coat--2666 tacks sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa and may slowly be going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It becomes clear only in the book's fourth section that Bolao is performing these lateral leaps the better...
...It’s good to see actual people who did that,” he said. “It’s a lot different from sitting here at college doing a drill every week...
...Find your voice, be true to these individuals, and let the voice speak for itself. And by so doing the audience will step away saying, ‘Their voices mattered, I can finally hear them.’” With this emphasis on loyalty to the actual events—as well as to the men they affected—the screenplay draws from the documented testimonies of the defendants. Van Devere does not depict the frequent parties the group held in Perkins 28, nor the suicide of one of the trial’s targets, Dental...
...Iraq had ended? By midday, the groups posted a video account of the prank, with interviews with readers around New York City. Some reports said the fake-out was nationwide, but the video was shot all in New York, and accounts of the stunt seemed limited to the actual home of the Times. And how does the New York Times feel about being parodied and satirized? A spokeswoman told an (actual) Times blogger, "We are in the process of finding out more about...