Word: smith
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...question is, why? In your own film, why leave an impression of Smith and Carlos that doesn't reflect your view of the truth? Norman says he wanted to honor Peter, who considered Smith and Carlos his best mates. But in person, he seems angry on his uncle's behalf. In his view, his uncle is being edited out of history, and Smith and Carlos haven't done enough to stop it. In 2005, a statue of the scene on the Mexico City dais was erected at the Americans' alma mater, San José State University, California - without Norman...
...Norman couldn't see Smith and Carlos during the presentations but knew they'd executed the salute from the silence that fell over the stadium. His support for them continued in front of the media afterward, and right up to his sudden death, aged 64, in 2006. If a trifle amateurish in style, Salute works as a fascinating dissection of a morally complex episode. Smith and Carlos acknowledge that while they had each other as a "shield," there was no one to protect Norman, who paid for his actions. Though a likely 200-m finalist at the Munich Games four...
...While the film leaves one impression, Matt Norman leaves another. He spent, he says, a small fortune bringing Smith and Carlos to Melbourne for the funeral. He'd phoned them within minutes of his uncle's death, he says, and both were distraught. Carlos would have attended the funeral "no matter what," but Smith played hard ball, Norman recalls, first rejecting an economy-class ticket, then insisting his wife accompany him, also at Norman's expense. "The fact is, I've kept it nice and quiet," Norman says, "because I didn't want to embarrass them...
...While Matt Norman says he loves and respects Smith and Carlos, "they don't seem to stand up for anything but themselves. I think they still comment on injustices, but they don't put any weight behind it. If I had done something that made me such a massive part of history, I would want to make it my life. I haven't seen any extra demonstration or extra effort going into solving human and civil rights issues in other countries." The inside story of the salute is gripping; behind the scenes of Salute is quite a tale...
...picks up a message from one reader and eventually moseys 50 cm to the other, at which point the missive dashes over the Internet. Delivery, if completed, could take days, weeks, months. The project officially launches in August and is part of Isley's work with fellow researcher Paul Smith. The duo's name, appropriately, is boredomresearch...