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Segal says he went to Bailey "to see that the history was accurate in its essentials." He says, "I wasn't concerned with every single factual detail, but I was concerned that overall it was accurate in tone...
...believable urban legend, argues Brunvand, must have a combination of active ingredients in anecdotal form: currency, anonymity ("Guess what happened to a friend of a friend of mine"), an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry and a lack of factual foundation combined with a seductive plausibility. The hardiest perennials include "The Choking Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned...
...They have boycotted it since its creation and should continue to do so. The Undergraduate Council has offered a proposal for a Judiciary Board that avoids the illegitimacy and arbitrariness that are inherent in the CRR. The CRR must be abolished and Michael Nolan must learn how to write factual, unbiased articles. Steven Nussbaum '86 Undergraduate Council
Finally, a letter from Overseers Secretary Robert Shenton, highlighting the enclosed "brief, factual description" of Harvard's policies on South Africa, all backing Mrs. Bok's letter. As has been cogently demonstrated by others, the Harvard description is not so objectively factual; it is, rather, in the sense Mr. Shenton did not intend, a "brief," and as such ought properly to have been accompanied by an answering brief...
When we see Dancer dallying with his second wife Dawn (Barbara Williams), a radical and intellectual white beauty, we know the couple is a bi-racial conjugal stereotype, but it's clearly a stereotype with some factual basis. And the blow by blow (and blow and blow) of Pryor being lapped into the vortex of the Hollywood scene is painfully compelling. The scenes are nothing if not the typical cinematic version of sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll in the fast lane, but once again the stereotype earns credence from its factual basis...