Word: experts
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...particular interest to Jean Clottes, France's foremost expert on prehistoric rock art, is the fact that, in contrast to previous cave artwork, images of predatory and dangerous species-bears, lions, rhinos, a panther and a hyena-far outnumber the horses, bison, deer and mammoths usually hunted by Stone Age people. "The paintings in this cave," he says, "will force us to change how we interpret Stone...
Producers for the newer talk shows insist they too are trying to be helpful, not exploitative. Usually, however, the uplift consists of simply a few bromides from the host ("Do two wrongs make a right?" Ricki likes to say) and some facile advice from a psychologist or other "expert" brought on for a few minutes at the end of the show...
...woman who appeared as an expert on Ricki Lake describes it as a disturbing experience. Before the show, she found herself in the green room with several of the guests-teens with gripes about a friend's mate. "A producer came in and gave them a pep talk," the woman recalls, "whipping them into a frenzy. She'd say, 'This is your chance to go out and tell the world your side of the story. No physical violence, but yell as much as you want. You won't make points by talking in an even-handed manner.' It seemed very...
After almost an hour of emotional outbursts, the expert came on for five minutes (after rejecting a fake-leather binder offered to her by a staff member "to make you look more authoritative"). As soon as the show ended, guards whisked all the participants offstage and out of the building. "There was no chance for them to decompress or come back into the real world after what was an emotional experience," the guest recalls. "There was a real assembly-line quality. It was ruthless...
...elites" are so clueless as to what's really on America's mind. It is why voters get congressional gridlock when they want action, and congressional action when they want nothing in particular. In a typical indictment, one columnist recently called some piece of Washington policymaking "too secret, too expert, too Beltway...