Word: transcript
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...said," We all have a duty to die." It was the Denver Post that changed the "we" to "you" and added the elderly and terminally ill, to whom I had not referred in my speech. The Post ran a -correction later, after being confronted with its own transcript, but the damage had already been done, and the national news services (and TIME) carried the misquote. Is it possible for politicians to discuss serious subjects without risking even more serious misunderstandings...
...SEEM petty to harp on how Reagan looks in a verbatim transcript. Most people's everyday speech would look atrocious transcribed word for word. But the content made no more sense than the phrasing; Reagan, was being asked to explain his views on specific issues and he should be able to communicate ideas, if not a fact or two as well...
True, the Times' transcript is cruel; it left out nothing save the pauses and stumbles. But it is important for the public to see just how foggy the President really...
Compelling facts do not always cohere into riveting drama. But Mann, author of the social documentary play Still Life, has shaped the trial transcript and other relevant comments into antiphonal form: the lament of a hard-nosed cop will be answered by a raucous drag queen; the surreal anguish of Dan White (incarnated with creepy brilliance by John Spencer) will be followed by some wildly comic testimony that might have come from Carol Burnett's blooper barrel. Execution of Justice, directed by Oskar Eustis and Anthony Taccone, is a major work that seems to stand outside the perimeters...
...learned on the job. A night security guard in Temple, Texas, says he bought a B.A. in law enforcement from Southwestern University in Tucson for $500 in 1982 because he "wanted something to hang on my wall and feel proud about." Ultimately, he became suspicious about his purchase: the transcript showed good grades for unrelated "courses," including an A in trigonometry. The Arizona house of representatives has passed legislation (awaiting state-senate passage this spring) that will outlaw the obvious diploma mills...