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...really don't think that theater can portray reality very well any more," adds Aron. "People can't suspend disbelief. I like to push that and make it more melodramatic and cartoony and big. That's something you can do in theater more than in film...
...that particular book I read at a time when I was trying to figure out the unfigure-outable, which was what does it mean to portray life in a death camp. And I can't think of another book that so specifically got to the problem of the texture of daily life in an unliveable situation. I get annoyed when people ask questions like "I've read so many holocaust stories, and then there's this one," as if it was a genre like Western and Mystery and Holocaust...
Bush has surrounded himself with a posse of elite, white upper-crust money hounds. Their association with the middle class is limited to paying hired help and getting shoe shines. These guys don't know how to portray Bush as a common man for one reason--they haven't got a clue what the middle class...
...said in the beginning of this letter, not-so-good sportswriters often exaggerate, and do a bad job trying to make the unimportant seem important. Quite frankly, I don't know what to make of Grunwald's showering of attention in my direction. His fervent attempts to portray me as a menacing imbecile make me wonder why he's trying to make such a big deal out of me and my views. He seems to take me more seriously that I take myself (and anyone's taking me seriously is scary...
...while it seems unfair, almost cruel, to portray Magic's personal tragedy in a good news/bad news light, the fact remains that this 32-year-old athlete without a college degree has a chance to do what thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, doctors, teachers and advertisers have failed to do: get the American public, at long last, to listen to the facts about AIDS, to stop killing each other with unsterile needles and unprotected sex. Magic got tested--even if it was only for his insurance--and got his results. Anyone who has been exposed should be tested...