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...language ban. "It's a way of denying the woman's ability to describe her experience as she lived it." To her, the fact that Bowen described her ordeal as simply "inside of me" was a problem because "it's so bland that it could describe what a dentist does with dentist tools to excavate a cavity." Murphy agrees: "Nobody in that courtroom was allowed to describe what happened as a crime...
...first people I met at the rally turned out to be a member of First Baptist church. His name was Paul Walters; he is a dentist, a Republican committeeman and a Giuliani fan. When I asked what his pastor might think of that, he just shook his head as if I was missing the point...
...hadn't even heard of the film until that morning when a screed about it came on the radio, so I was able to nod darkly with the rest of the shoppers, savoring a moment of public accord so rare in Tehran. Everywhere else I went, from the dentist to the flower shop, Iranians buzzed with resentment at the film's depictions of Persians, adamant that the movie was secretly funded by the U.S. government to prepare Americans for going to war against Iran. "Otherwise why now, if not to turn their people against us?" demanded an elderly lady buying...
DIED. Charles Norwood, 65, crusty, tobacco-chewing dentist and seven-term Republican Congressman from Georgia who arrived in Washington as part of the '94 G.O.P. revolution; of cancer; in Augusta, Ga. A conservative's conservative--Norwood vehemently opposed gun control and immigration--he nevertheless spent much of his career advocating for patients' rights and fighting health-insurance companies for comprehensive coverage...
...acts of violence, she said. She ultimately places blame on high-ranking politicians and a chain of command. “That place turned me into a monster,” a former guard says in the film. Another guard compares fulfilling her torture duties to going to the dentist. After the film, audience members articulated feelings of shock and a desire to take action. “It was a point well-made and clearly points to a need to some sort of policy change,” said Olivia Shabb ’08. Kennedy urged the audience...