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...concerned. I was totally deluded. I had made myself believe that I was an actress. I was showing true life as it really was -including actual sex as it really happened -instead of the phony stuff that you got from Hollywood. That was my raison d'etre throughout the whole thing. It was okay; I was okay; I wasn't a slut...
...Meetings like this one, convened by the support group Dads in Distress, happen almost every day across Australia and New Zealand. The raison d'?tre of many of the countries' several hundred men's organizations is a conviction that the system crushes men after their marriages fall apart; that a two-punch combination of vindictive ex-partners and courts that favor mothers in custodial disputes is destroying fathers' relationships with their children. DiD meetings begin with a minute's silence for the five men who commit suicide in Australia each day, on the assumption that many of them have acted...
...artwork, attractively printed in blue ink on an off-white ground, has polish and clarity. Unfortunately, the experiences of "A Few Perfect Hours" do far less for us as readers than they evidently did for the author. The book's episodic nature defeats the raison d'etre of a travel book - to learn something new about the world. Neufeld never stays in one place long enough to give us a depth of understanding about the environs or people in the places he visits. "A Few Perfect Hours," ultimately reads more like autobiography set in exotic locals. But without the neurotic...
...last few years. There’s the Media Research Center, whose mission is to “prove that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values.” And then there’s Media Matters for America, whose opposing raison d’etre is “to comprehensively monitor, analyze, and correct conservative misinformation in the U.S. media...
Still, social justice remains the Forum’s guiding focus and raison d’être...