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...subjects' dreams, moods and rancors, we have to wonder what important elements are lost as he reduces the two days of interviews he does with each subject to 10 or 15 mins. Any writer or editor knows this: subtlety is what's lost in compression. Sometimes the truth, whatever that is in understanding a person's life, is also at risk...
...have no idea what small lies or significant evasions the Uppers or Apted are concealing. But I'd guess that the series gets at the larger truth of Englishness: of reticence and acceptance, of class and an easy or biting humor. "There are many things that might have happened in my life that haven't happened," Neil says, "and there is little point in being regretful and angry about it." To which an American viewer might respond, Why the hell not? And the answer, I think, is: because they're English...
...didn't always know what HIV was. When Pena was young, her mother told her that the medications she took every day were for ear infections, and, Pena says, "you believe your parents." When she was nine, she finally asked her mother about the drugs and learned the truth. "I had started on AZT at five, and throughout my childhood, I was on various studies of new medicines, like 3TC. I was a complete test case," she says. "I had spinal taps, fluid checks, brain scans, bone density scans; you name it, I've done...
...ongoing struggle. I did feel sick most of the time - I had nausea and diarrhea. The medicine gave me a bitter, bitter, bitter taste that would come back up in my throat hours later in school. If I could get away with not taking them, I would." Knowing the truth also meant that Pena began living a double life. Only her closest friends knew her diagnosis; most of her classmates were unaware of the daily battle she fought with HIV. "I was worried if I was going to graduate," she confesses. "if I was going to make it to prom...
...rhetoric was so far removed from reality it sometimes seemed almost deliberately ironic. Bush pronounced al-Maliki "the right guy for the job," claiming the Iraqi leader had made great efforts to reconcile sectarian groups responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iraqis in recent weeks. In truth, the Prime Minister has done little to bridge the sectarian gap; if anything, he has occasionally contributed to widening the chasm. Many in Baghdad also found some unintended black humor in Bush's description of al-Maliki as "a strong leader." After all, just the previous day, a leaked memo from National...