Word: retold
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...that they are crocodile tears and the audience begins to laugh on cue. Here, the ego of Michael Peterson seems to recede, and the precarious balance between the id and the superego manifests itself in the bursts of violence that are calmly—and even comically—retold by the performative narrator...
Kristof’s anecdotes continued as he retold conflicts with governments in a humorous tone. He has been detained more than once and barred from North Korea for life. “Though it must not have been for my life,” Kristof joked, “because a little while later they let me back...
...training, I turned to former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher, who won Super Bowl XL. Cowher explained that every great speech has to present players with a challenge, a plan to meet that challenge and an incentive for meeting that challenge. Then he retold the most effective speech he ever gave to a team. "When Christopher Columbus left and got on the boat, everyone told him not to go because the world is flat and he's going to fall off the face of the earth," began Cowher. I realized then that there is probably a good deal of history...
Still, the lack of an academic department devoted to new media has not stopped some students from pursuing multimedia studies. Last year, Charlie I. Miller ’08 devised a VES senior thesis that retold the Faust legend as what he calls “a multimedia production that fully integrated video and live performance.” The project, entitled “Username: Faust,” heavily utilized YouTube and other Internet components to convey a virtual reality world that replaced the spiritual realm of the original Faust myth. Miller praises his adviser, VES Professor Alfred...
...Obama campaign officials retold that story Tuesday when asked if the insurgent candidate would be blown off course now with all the attention - and criticism - that will come as the race enters the next phase. "He showed last fall that he understood what this was all about by staying totally centered, totally grounded and not taking the advice that lots and lots of people were giving him. From Labor Day until Clinton slipped in late October, all of the experienced hands all gave the same advice: 'You gotta' get down, get dirty, get tough.' And he said...