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Between shoots, Kidman, a former high school debater in her native Australia, would plop down in her bathrobe and curlers on the floor of Kubrick's book-cluttered office to talk politics. "I challenged him, and he loved it," she says. "It was great to work with someone you can...
Whatever the threats and intentions, the killings were, in the end, blindly indiscriminate. They shot at the math whiz and the actress, the wrestler, the debater, jocks, brains, band members, freshmen, seniors. They shot at the head football coach; they shot at the science teacher. "They shot at everybody," says...
. The high school debater: this person just talks, and talks and talks. We don't have stop watches like their judges used to, but we sure wish we did. Even the Parliamentary Debate Society doesn't want people who talk nonstop.
In Williams' richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel. He showed early talent as a debater and an advocate--at age six he persuaded his mother to simplify the spelling of his name from Thoroughgood--but even more as a class clown and budding playboy. Indeed, it was...
Througout our nation's history, Debater-Americans have been needlessly and cruelly persecuted. In 1621, at the celebration of the First Thanksgiving, Native Americans and European-Americans came together for a day of feasting and merriment, but Debater-Americans were excluded from the festivities, as one account reveals, "because they...