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Such a belief in the endurance of place over time gives the movie an easy-going realism, with almost a social historian's slant. Sam's search for the true story of his father neatly parallels the brief conflict in one scene between Hispanics and whites in the community over what version of history to teach. As Sam listens to one account after another of various adventures related to the murder mystery, the movie's theme becomes interaction between story-telling and reality...
...Service News, which had a more military slant than the regular Crimson, was published twice a week by students...
...sure what exactly they're going to use," Bush said. "It's all going to come down to how they slant it in the editing...
...night after night struggling to understand not just the news, but poetry and folksong. But I found the BBC and Radio Moscow, in time Radio Netherlands and the static-cracked voices of new African nations, and by ninth grade I knew that other countries not only had a different slant on the news, they had different news altogether, some aimed to listeners in their former colonies and to emigrants in South America or East Africa, but most aimed at anyone who cared to caress the fine-tuning dial...
...disappointed by the editorial slant which your recent article ("Harvard Researcher Finds Pizza Is Actually Good for You", news story, Dec. 12, 1995) imposed on Dr. Giovannucci's research on the effects of vegetables on risk of prostate cancer. I doubt that Dr. Giovannucci ever would have suggested that his research implied that "pizza is good for you." In fact, all that was claimed was that consumption of foods containing tomatoes (and perhaps strawberries) is correlated to a reduced risk of prostate cancer...