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...formidable as Clinton's, Obama says in an interview, "was liberating ... What I'd felt was that we could try some things in a different way and build an organization that reflected my personality and what I thought the country was looking for. We didn't have to unlearn a bunch of bad habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Did It | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...beguilement, the seductive talent of getting looked at. (These kids wouldn't be on screen if someone hadn't noticed them and said, "You oughta be in pictures.") They have been watched, and aware they're being watched, since grade school. That's a lesson that's hard to unlearn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Boleyn Girl: When Child Stars Grow Up | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...retreat to his native land and to the sort of material with which he first established his international reputation, Soldier of Orange, his 1977 resistance drama of a much more conventional kind. But in his 69th year, Verhoeven is perhaps something of a split personality: a man who cannot unlearn the headlong American way of making movies that he learned comparatively late in life (he was 48 when he came here) and a man who may also have an aging eye angled at his eventual place in cinema history. Black Book is, I think, an attempt to satisfy both these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog of War Resistance | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...opposed,” she says. “I’m not trying to be a professional artist. I like the idea of working against the division of labor, especially in Barthes’s definition—that what we need to do as intellectuals is unlearn. Learning something new and loving the process is important for me so I don’t become in essence, framed...

Author: By Juli Min, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boym Nostalgic for ‘Broken-Tech’ | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...belong. Alas, the outcome of this production will most likely be paid for by Lebanese blood. Do the Lebanese people have to accept this situation and continue to hammer and strike each other for the benefit of other nations? I believe they still have a chance to unlearn the habits of civil war and turn to those trying to pit them against each other and say “no thank you, take your trash elsewhere...

Author: By Mohammed J. Herzallah | Title: Lebanon’s Civil War: The Sequel | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

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