Word: documental
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TIME has obtained a copy of a 34-page document bearing the careful editing marks of Moore, who sought to portray herself in the best possible light. At one point, where she apologizes for her conventional upbringing, she inserted the words "upper middle class" to describe her social status. Moore also had second thoughts and crossed out some of the most revealing passages from her first version. In the text that follows, one portion that she deleted is enclosed in brackets. Since Moore nurtured the vain hope that the radicals would read her story and readmit her to their ranks...
Then, just two days later, Patty signed a five-page affidavit prepared by her lawyers for release in court. The remarkable document claimed that far from being the swaggering, dedicated rebel she had described to her friend, she had been forced to become a revolutionary by her captors in the Symbionese Liberation Army. What was more, she yearned to return to her family...
...closet, she was so weak that she could stand for only a minute or so before falling. Her captors told her that she had to take part in the robbery of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco that occurred on April 15, 1974. "She was given a gun," the document declared, "and directed to stand about in the center of the bank counter. Meanwhile, one of her captors, armed with a gun which was kept pointed at her, kept an eye on her and had told her in advance that if she made one false move or did anything except...
...plastic condominium with a wife I didn't love and lots of bratty kids . . . I wouldn't like it but it wouldn't drive me nuts," he writes, unaware of the brattiness implied by such conjecture. Yet in the end, Eden Express is a painfully honest document of a life in transition. The shift is even evident in the book's style. The early pages contain the sort of hippie jargon that franchises experience into junk food for thought. But by the end, Vonnegut has found a truer, more subdued voice that reaches...
Certainly a part of this reaction is that Puritan guilt yanking at the American heart strings: art is supposed to be work, back-breaking, meticulous, a blood and sweat document of the starving artist. Lichtenstein seems like the smart-aleck who is getting away with cheating...