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...relabeled. The products themselves, however, will not be banned. "The great vitamin ban of 1993 is a hoax," says Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, one of several independent groups that support the FDA. "We need the government to sort fact from fiction...
...year (possibly the decade) of the threatened child. The stories told about such children -- abused or abandoned, in some way forced to cope prematurely with life's terrors -- can be read in a couple of ways. They may represent a revival of interest by moviemakers in one of fiction's archetypes, that of the child alone and improvising in a world he didn't make and doesn't understand. They may also reflect our relatively new sensitivity to child abuse...
...readings included a study of classical rhetoric as well as short non-fiction pieces highlighting specific writing techniques. Every Friday we would participate in a personal tutorial, either with Marius himself or one of his two assistants. We were encouraged to submit excerpts of the same essay in successive weeks to examine each step of the editing and revision process--that way, we could highlight and solve persistent problems...
...they have for remaining silent about violence in news programming is that the solutions they have advocated for entertainment, if applied to news programming, would be shown up for what they amount to: paternalistic censorship. Changing the truth is obviously inimical to a free society: changing the content of fiction is a less clear, but just as menacing, threat...
This all but destroys the supposed deeper meaning of the film. Eventually you begin to suspect this story would work better on "Geraldo" than as a metaphor exposing gender and race as performance. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and in this movie Gallimard's story seems so peculiar it simply does not hold any implications beyond itself...