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Role-playing programs give them a crash course. At Hunterdon, students' faces are instantly aged with cornstarch and makeup. Next the disabilities are laid on: yellow goggles smeared with Vaseline distort vision, wax plugs dampen hearing, gloves and splints cripple fingers, and peas inside shoes impair walking. Then the ersatz invalids are asked to perform common tasks: purchasing medication at the pharmacy, undressing for X rays, filling out a Medicare form and, most humiliating, using the bathroom...
...when a long article in the Washington Post cataloged historical "errors and absurdities" in Stone and Zachary Sklar's screenplay. Assassination scholars ragged Stone for his naivete, his use of discredited testimony, his reliance on suspect "experts." A TIME critic said that if Stone's film "turns out to distort history, he may wind up doing more harm than homage to the memory of the fallen President." Tom Wicker, a New York Times columnist, has seen the film and believes it does all that and worse. He calls JFK "paranoid and fantastic," full of "wild assertions" and propagating an idea...
...these volunteerist, bootstrapping messages are patently untrue, and they distort the economic reality that causes these massive social problems. The disappearance of blue-collar jobs from cities, the withdrawal of federal aid for housing and welfare programs, and the abandonment of inner-city schools have caused the urban crisis...
Memory's workings are equally complex on the psychological level. "We see things in a context. We select what we observe, and then we may distort that for a purpose," says neuropsychiatrist David Spiegel of Stanford University. Events can be altered, even as they occur, simply through lack of attention. What is not seen, heard or smelled will not register in the brain. For example, a man might remember being introduced to a woman he finds attractive, but she might not have any memory of him if she did not consider him appealing...
...have them. I don't think that a writer like myself, an imaginative writer, should put whatever talent he or she has at the service of a revolution, no matter how much you believe in it yourself. And I believe passionately in it. But I think that if you distort whatever little talent you've been given, that's wrong, because talent is the one thing you have and it should be used faithfully in dealing with the world around...