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...Bruce Grierson is the author of U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life...
...John Grierson, whose monograph First Principles of Documentary set forth some of the genre’s initial conventions, took a more humanistic view than Hitchcock. He once stated: “In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real…is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound...
...this sense, Grierson, who believed in the use of “cinema as a pulpit,” is something of an ally of Moore, Greenwald, and their fellow partisan filmmakers. They, too, hold interpretation—the conclusions drawn by viewers—to be primary. But do these political films meet Grierson’s threshold test of “profound” interpretation? Do viewers of partisan films draw deep conclusions, or even alter in any way the convictions they held when they entered the theater...
...confides this to Jane Grierson, who runs a school for gifted kids. A former prodigy, Jane can appreciate what Fred has to give; she can empathize with his anguish, isolation, nightmares. She will protect him, nurture him -- mother him, if he and Dede give her half a chance. Thus begins a kind of custody battle between the two women, each offering part of what Fred needs. Dede is heart, Jane is mind; Dede is sense, Jane sensibility. Neither is a whole number: Dede spits out cherry pits faster than she does ideas, and Jane bakes a meat loaf that looks...
Senior Yvonne Grierson, a member of the varsity women's swimming team, also decided to attend MIT for the academics. She was the Division III national champion in the 100 butterfly and the 100 freestyle during her sophmore and junior years. Another woman athlete, Lisa Arel, was fourth overall in last year's NCAA all-around gymnastics championships...