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In the old days society seemed to survive without endless depictions of bogus, badly presented sex in every movie or play. Things were more subtle. You were given the hint, and that hint was sufficient to get across the idea that the couple on the screen would be having sex, but off-screen. It was left …
To The Guardian In your interview with the writer Valeria Luiselli, one minute she makes an admirable case for the value of fiction, and the next she asks, “If you’re going to devote your life to something as questionably useful as literature or art, I think there’s a commitment that you make to understanding others”. …
Is it just me, but do other people understand what actors are saying in modern movies? When I was younger I did a lot of amateur acting. We performed in the massive great barn of a place called the Wimbledon Theatre in London. Our director was great, but a bit of a tyrant. She used …
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The posting below about Big Soda trying to persuade the government that consuming excessive sugar is fine as long as you take plenty of exercise raises the issue of Liberty. The Obama Administration was taken to task for what some regarded as too many regulations protecting consumers, the environment etc. The current Administration is scrapping swathes …
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Job interviews are rarely a pleasant experience but the one Olivia Bland recently endured appears to have been particularly hideous. The 22-year-old graduate says she was left in tears at the bus stop after a two-hour grilling by Craig Dean, the boss of a tech company in Oldham where she had hoped to become a …
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