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...also a radical, who attempted to organize a racially mixed union of tenant farmers, placing him (and his debaters) in considerable peril from near-riotous mobs. At one point, indeed, they encounter a lynch mob and barely escape with their lives. I don't know if that is a pure or an impure fiction, but it does not strike me as an entirely implausible sequence. I don't know if the composition of Tolson's team, as portrayed here, is entirely accurate either, since it carefully includes a brave and pretty woman (Jurnee Smollett) and a troubled, studly male (Nate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Debaters' Gratifying Clichés | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

...charts. As it is in allegedly authentic biopics, so it is in this send-up. There is no effort or intentionality in Dewey's story. He writes songs the same way he gets girls - by standing around and looking receptive. We are to understand him as the pure product of, the pure prisoner of, his "genius." Which is why, of course, he is totally unable to cope with celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walk Hard: Stumbling to Glory | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...However, political analysts like Lutz believe the talk of opposition is pure braggadocio. "The SVP has been threatening and bullying politicians and population for a long time," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blocher's Fall From Swiss Grace | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...continued, “This is exactly how I feel about the human rights violations in North Korea. It’s this really weird mixture of emotions—it’s not just anger, it’s not just frustration, or just pure sadness—it’s everything combined...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cellist Performs At Rights Concert | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...think it’s a great class, I’m really excited to come here every day,” he says. “There’s a demo every day—it’s never just pure lecture. One day [Charbonneau] got into a rocket chair and zoomed across the room to demonstrate one of Newton’s laws. Another time he froze a grapefruit in liquid nitrogen and broke it on the floor...

Author: By Sue Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gone Are Enrollments of Cosmic Scope | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

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