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...immoral lout who abused his charge; Frederick Treves, the doctor who recorded Merrick's case, was not saintly; and the other freaks did not free Merrick from the sideshow. These deviations from fact would not be particularly important if the movie did not wear its supposed authenticity like a shield, daring people to criticize its intent...
...offenses. Many critics are alarmed that records can be made to "lie" legally. "You can't change history and pretend it never happened," says Douglas Watts, staff counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Expungement may hinder police trying to develop leads. It also could be used to shield police conduct from public scrutiny. Asks Jack Landau, head of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "How can you monitor the behavior of law enforcement if records are sealed?" Some businessmen, moreover, have legitimate grounds for digging into the past of prospective employees. Concedes University of Nebraska...
Fervent evangelicals saw the move as an assault on one of their last bastions: the Bible schools they had established to shield their young from an ungodly environment (most of the schools are predominantly white). Congress forbade the IRS to carry out its plan, but in the eyes of conservative evangelicals the battle lines had been drawn. Says Billings: "The IRS ignited the dynamite that had been lying around for years...
Unable to do much more than try to shield himself after the eighth round, Ali held on with the courage that, through 59 fights, had always carried him the distance. For two rounds, he seemed to be running on will alone. Indeed, Trainer Angelo Dundee had wanted to stop the fight after the ninth round, but others in Ali's entourage objected. After the next round, Manager Herbert Muhammad stepped in and asked Referee Richard Greene to end it. Said Greene: "I would have stopped it anyhow. He was bloody-eyed, and there was an overall lack of response...
...twinkly lights of the hotel's screening room. Along the way Allen abandons coherence, chronology, and even comic timing. He jumps between love affairs, fantasies, and his distorted sense of reality--his memories--with frightening alacrity. Like a night when the nightmares refuse to end, Allen can't shield his eyes from the suffering around him but refuses to fix his gaze on any one element of pain long enough somehow to understand...