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The Runaways (2010 film)


story. My book is the real story. This is just a lighter kind of flash of what The Runaways were for a specific amount of time. How do you possibly take two and a half years and make it a film that’s an hour and a half, and make it even closely touch what was truly going on? It’s an epic. The true story is an epic, and that’s just not anything that could have been done on film." Joan Jett felt that the film captured 1970s Los
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The Comeback Story


The Comeback Story is a half-hour drama reality show which aired on ABC from October 2, 1953 to February 5, 1954, in which celebrities explain how they overcame physical disabilities or other kinds of adverse fortunes in their lives. At first the program was hosted by former vaudeville star, songwriter, and actor George Jessel. For the last episodes, however, the emcee was Arlene Francis, best remembered as a long-time panelist on the CBS Television game show "What's My Line?" Among the series
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Resonance of Fate


out, stilted way that only reveals its agenda dozens of hours into your quest" but what "makes this story engaging even before your ultimate goal becomes clear is that the characters are well-developed and easy to relate to," concluding that the "quirky story provides laughs and drama." Destructoid noted that ""Resonance of Fate" builds its world mostly through inference and implication rather than exposition" and added "the main plot being somewhat threadbare, it never really ascends to the kind of epic scale one would
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In the Lake of the Woods


tensions rise. Verlyn Klinkenborg of the "New York Times" wrote that the novel contains three kinds of stories: "The first is a conventional, remote third-person account of plain facts, the events that can be reconstructed without conjecture, more or less. The second kind of story appears in several chapters called "Evidence": collections of quotations, excerpts from interviews and readings that bear on the Wade case. The third kind of story appears in chapters called "Hypothesis"; it tries to suggest what might
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The Unforgiving


to O'Connell what they were looking for, ""We told him what kind of movies we liked, what kind of books we read, and he thought about it and he came up with a basic idea, like 2 or 3 lines. The story is about people who have done bad things. Not because they are bad, but because they made bad decisions."" Following the formation of the initial ideas, O'Connell completed the rest of the story with additional suggestions from the band. For example, Sinéad was
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Hellboy


his own characters for the stories he wanted to tell, rather than trying to shoehorn existing characters into these stories. Mignola elaborated, "The kinds of stories I wanted to do I had in mind before I created Hellboy. It’s not like I created Hellboy and said, 'Hey, now what does this guy do?' I knew the kinds of stories I wanted to do, but just needed a main guy." He initially created Hellboy as part of a team of five, but scrapped this idea when
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The Story of David


The Story of David (1976) was a two-part, 3.2 hour American television movie dramatizing the biblical story of King David. It starred Timothy Bottoms as the young David, Keith Michell as the older David, Anthony Quayle as King Saul, and Jane Seymour as Bathsheba. Produced by Columbia Pictures Television for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC-TV), it premiered on 9 April 1976. It was filmed in Israel and Spain. "The Story of David" was a kind of sequel to "The Story
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Jon Klassen


Klassen said in his acceptance speech, "Making a book, you're kind of going out on a limb in the belief that what you think of as a satisfying story is the same as what other people think of as a satisfying story. This doesn't mean everything in the story turns out alright for everybody, but you, as a storyteller, try and make sure it ends the way the story should end." Klassen illustrated "The Dark" (2013), written by Lemony Snicket, which made the
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It's Kind of a Funny Story


Times, who described it as—"Insightful and utterly authentic...this is an important book." However, some critics suggested that "It's Kind of a Funny Story" is a funny but sometimes dull story. "Kirkus Reviews" stated, "while these thoughts are truthful, it does not make them interesting". They also added, "what results in a slow start to an easy, occasionally long-winded novel". Despite the occasional dullness, they also praised the book to be "humorously poignant".
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The Story of an Hour


titled Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour, Berkove states that this story is simply about Louise Mallard. Berkove enforces what the reader should be able to determine from reading this short story, that it is never defined that Mrs. Mallard is truly unhappy in her marriage or in her life in society. The reader watches the struggle of Mrs. Mallard realizing her husband is dead and finding self-assertion in such a short amount of time. However, at the end of the story, the reader
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Basketball: A Love Story


lives of its players and coaches, and the impacts it has had on society and culture around the world. The stories are deliberately not presented in chronological order. Klores explained: "It’s like opening a book of short stories... Even when it was 10 hours I never intended it to be a series of mini-biographical vignettes, if you will. That would have bored me, frankly. So it’s kind of like 62 different films, just short stories. But the transitions are logical." "Basketball
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Bibiana Camacho


apartment that changes its interior every 24 hours. The stories of "Tu ropa en mi armario" are an exploration to the intruder, the one that comes to deform our reality. In each story of this book there is a stranger whose intentions are not very clear and, in most of the times are not good ones. "La Sonámbula", the second book of stories of Bibiana Camacho, runs scenarios where every kind of losses and disencounters happen. Their stories delve into the land of the underworld and the fantastic
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Parker's Back


"Parker's Back" is a short story by American author Flannery O'Connor. "Parker’s Back" was published in 1965 in her final short story collection, "Everything That Rises Must Converge". O'Connor, a devout Roman Catholic, often used religious themes in her work and examined the depth of human nature. As O’Connor once revealed in an interview, "All fiction is about human nature. What kind of human nature you write about depends on the amount and kind of your talent, not on what you may
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Three Hours


Three Hours is a 1927 American drama film based on the 1926 story "Purple and Fine Linen" by May Edginton. It was directed by James Flood and stars Corinne Griffith, who also served as executive producer. The plot concerns a woman, Madeline Durkin (Griffith), who has lost all her wealth as well as her young daughter. Taking advantage of a stranger's kindness, she is apprehended for theft but asks for three hours leave to see her dying child. Filmed in Los Angeles, the story is set
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The Story of an Hour


far too soon and her heart was unable to bear the shock that she felt about seeing her husband alive. The article "Marriage and The Story of an Hour" suggests that Chopin's short story demonstrates that marriage is not always what it appears to be, and that the journey to freedom can be dangerous. Chopin shows her readers that the love of only one partner in a marriage is not indicative of a mutual relationship. In the story, Louise says that she loves her husband sometimes, and in the article it
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1966 24 Hours of Le Mans


nuts. But that makes sense: Both Le Mans and international motorsport are different now, tamer and less raw. So is the automobile itself. Racing is no longer a brutally dangerous pastime or the kind of thing that puts whole countries on the edge of their seats. And most of all, in 2016, there is no Henry the Deuce, no world-altering grudge match, no Enzo, no Carroll. The Ford-Ferrari war pivoted on how these men operated and thought, and they made that story what
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Tony Marvin


hour afternoon show, "Tony's Time," on WATR in Waterbury, Connecticut. A story in the Toledo Blade reported: "'I'm my own engineer for the first time in years,' Marvin said. 'I'm enjoying it.' He cues records, pushes the buttons for the taped commercials, and decides what kind of music to play, including show tunes, vocals, big bands, and lighter contemporary sounds." In 1981, Marvin came out of retirement to do "The Tony Marvin
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Luther Blissett (nom de plume)


social process of constructing myths, by which we do not mean “false stories,” we mean stories that are told and shared, re-told and manipulated, by a vast and multifarious community, stories that may give shape to some kind of ritual, some sense of continuity between what we do and what other people did in the past. A tradition. In Latin the verb “tradere” simply meant “to hand down something,” it did not entail any narrow-mindedness, conservatism or forced respect for
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Death Note (2017 film)


in a different country, you're in a different kind of environment, and you're trying to also summarize a sprawling series into a two-hour-long film. For me, it became about; what do these themes mean to modern day America, and how does that affect how we tell the story." Wingard also stated that he mainly attempted to make a unique and different take on the original manga, while also trying to keep the core themes and elements of the original manga intact, such as the
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The Sopranos


, inspiring an explosion of ambitious dramas on cable and off." Maureen Ryan of PopMatters described "The Sopranos" as the most influential television drama ever. "No one-hour drama series has had a bigger impact on how stories are told on the small screen, or more influence on what kind of fare we’ve been offered by an ever-growing array of television networks." Hal Boedeker stated in PopMatters in 2007 that the series was "widely influential for revealing that cable would accommodate complex series about dark characters
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Kadhalikka Neramillai


"Kadhalikka Neramillai"] was Wodehouseian humour at its best—unadulterated and pure." Director Vasanth noted in 2016, "when I watched Sridhar's ["Kadhalikka Neramillai"] that guarantees three hours of non-stop laughter, I understood what filmmaking is all about. A director par excellence is someone who can handle all subjects and infuse all kinds of emotions in the audience." In 2006, Crazy Mohan wanted to create something similar to "Kadhalikka Neramillai". He wrote the story and screenplay of the film
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Romance pro křídlovku


, the autobiographical context is not clearly apparent in the work. According to Petr A. Bílek, a literary theorist and historian, ""[Romance pro křídlovku] ... is not a nostalgic revocation of real events..."". The story doesn't examine ""how it actually happened"", instead of it, the author searches for ""what can be said"", and ""how to tell this kind of story"". The story is presented in the first-person. The individual
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Les Créatures


is revealed that everything strange and out of the ordinary that has been transpiring recently is actually a story that Edgar is writing told through his eyes, though it is unclear exactly where the fiction of Edgar’s story begins and the reality of his life as a writer ends. Edgar explains that a man who is more of an evil spirit than any kind of man or animal can control others through a remote device, though the batteries only last one hour. In Edgar’s story, those who are being controlled are forced into
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Hell on Wheels (season 5)


The end of the story is written down in history, so we know how the story would end for the railroad." He added: "What we didn't know is how the story would end for each of our characters, especially the ones that we created. It's been really challenging to wrap up people's stories in a satisfying way [...] We've gone down a lot of blind alleys and we've taken a lot of wrong turns and we've lost our way. Now, we've kind
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The Story of Miss Moppet


reader in a good way, showing "us that teasing is a kind of loving when it is a kind of teaching. The poet plays with us, and by taking us through an unreal experience, teaches us what it is to live in the real world." In her essay "Thoroughly Post-Victorian, Pre-Modern Beatrix" professor of English Katherine Chandler points out that Potter, unlike most Victorian writers of children's books, wrote original stories based on the realism of animal behaviour. Chandler notes that Potter
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BLIT (short story)


Cassini Division" (1998) and "the Langford Mind-Erasing Fractal Basilisk" in "Permutation City" (1994). Charles Stross also refers to a type of magical ward known as the "Langford Death Parrot" in "The Fuller Memorandum" (2010) and "Basilisk attacks" with "Langford fractals" in "Accelerando" (2005). The story has three sequels: "What Happened at Cambridge IV", "comp.basilisk FAQ", and "Different Kinds of Darkness". The last story
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Crime Scene (website)


case). This format differentiates Crime Scene stories from other kinds of fiction, because "while readers of most paperback mystery stories are led down a single plot line, Crime Scene readers actively create a story line and participate in solving cases...". The interactive nature of Crime Scene plays an integral part of the experience. Oftentimes, the audience's input influences what happens in the story. This was especially true when Crime Scene was first getting started and helped to shape the way that the site developed over time. As
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David Langford


for Best Short Story in 2001. A number of Langford's stories are set in a future containing images, colloquially called "basilisks", which crash the human mind by triggering thoughts that the mind is physically or logically incapable of thinking. The first of these stories was "BLIT" ("Interzone", 1988); others include "What Happened at Cambridge IV" ("Digital Dreams", 1990); "comp.basilisk FAQ", and the Hugo-winning "Different Kinds of Darkness" ("F&SF
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Internet manipulation


to its success being not just the technology but also the governance of the site. Namely, it has an army of countless volunteers and ways of determining what is or isn't true. Furthermore, various kinds of software may be used to combat this problem such as fake checking software or voluntary browser extensions that store every website one reads or use the browsing history to deliver fake revelations to those who read a fake story after some kind of consensus was found on the falsehood of a story. Furthermore, Daniel Suarez asks society
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Poetry Records


between the hero and heroin is the most obvious theme that links the three scenarios. It is also true that the eternal longing for morality, happiness, and justice in human nature is what really behind these stories, and makes them so real, despite of the same truth of human sinfulness which prevents the ideals from being realized. Still, it is these noble longings innate in the soul of human kind that make human being human, and make human lives worth of living. As long as human kind exists, the stories
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Selena (film)


writing the script after recording the Quintanilla family on their stories about Selena. Suzette informed on how Nava took "hours and hours of little stories of our lives and what we would do and how we felt." Nava explained on how some stories "had came out" during his recording sessions with the family and published the first draft on March 4, 1996. The incident where Selena and Perez eloped was written in the draft which Abraham expressed disagreements on it. Citing the singer's popularity with children, he was concerned
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Love, Loss, and What I Wore


show, which has a running time of about 1 hour and 30 minutes, is composed of 28 different stories that seek to illuminate the female identity. Generally composed of comic stories, the show often addresses sad, bitter or sentimental issues. Beckerman's memoir takes as its departure the clothing worn at pivotal times of her life and serves as the foundation for the show. The Ephrons augmented this with a collection of similarly themed stories presented by four additional characters. The show is staged in what is described as an "unapologetically
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Tad Williams


soldiers and diplomats traveling from Baghdad to Armenia are being stalked by a mysterious "vampyr." To avoid being killed, they must entertain the vampyr with stories for the night. "[B]y the time I was redoing ["Child of an Ancient City"] as an Arabian Nights story... the whole Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights kind of rose to the surface, and then that became one of the dominant features and, like a lot of my work, storytelling became what the story itself was about.
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Gravedigger (song)


. During the Dave Matthews Band's tours in 2008 and 2009, it was played regularly by the full band. Matthews said about the song: "It's kind of these different stories that are brought together by walking through a graveyard with their names and the dates of their births and their deaths, and the stories that came out of their lives. It's sort of just telling those stories and some others as you wander through a graveyard and what you might think if you could walk into the graves and find out
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Cynthia Ozick


kind of hallucinatory madness. You will do it no matter what. You can’t not do it.” She sees the “freedom in the delectable sense of making things up” as coexisting with the “torment” of writing. In 1971, Ozick received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for her short story collection, "The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories". In 1997, she received the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for "Fame and Folly". Three of her stories won first prize
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Satrangi


Satrangi (English: Seven Colors of Rainbow) was a 2008 Pakistani travel adventure drama series produced and directed by Imran Hussain which was broadcast on Geo TV. It was written by Jawad Daud. This drama was first of its kind that was based on what youngsters think, what they are going through and how their families don’t understand their problems. Though this series didn’t get much hype but it was much loved by the youngsters as they could easily relate to the story. This is a story of seven friends (
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture


possibly deal with this? On what level? As the story developed, everything worked until the very end. How do you resolve this thing? If humans can defeat this marvelous machine, it's really not so great, is it? Or if it really "is" great, will we like those humans who do defeat it? "Should" they defeat it? Who is the story's hero anyway? That was the problem. We experimented with all kinds of approaches...we didn't know what to do
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The Story of an Hour


being freed from marriage. Mrs. Mallard, as a character, shows that she was aware of her actions through Brently's arrival. "But, for one climactic hour of her life, Louise does truly taste joy," (Jamil) which happens to cause her frail heart to collapse. Louise Mallard's personality in "The Story of an Hour" was understood to portray an unthoughtful image of what a wife should be. Her actions were to "illustrate the dangers of making assumptions" (Mayer) and in result
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The Final Last of the Ultimate End


by himself and for himself, and he thinks one he has truly loved over and over again. At the end of the story, he asks to the reader, "what will be the end of this story?". The options he suggests are suicide and mental breakdown. However the true end of the story is hearing transmission from his loved one, who has followed him with the same kind of spaceship only to meet him. Seonghun Kim, Editor for "Cine 21", praised its sense of realism and
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Sorted (TV series)


the six." Writer Danny Brocklehurst noted; "What this was supposed to be was very much in that "Clocking Off" or "The Lakes" kind of vein of telling stories about people who actually – other than in soaps – don't make it onto television that often. It's about ordinary, working-class lives. I wanted to tell stories with dignity and humanity and truth about ordinary people, and even though the stories are not always life and death, they are really important to those characters.
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Batman R.I.P.


notes that: In an interview with "Comic Book Resources", Grant Morrison explained that Batman's fate in the story is "so much better than death. People have killed characters in the past, but to me, that kind of ends the story! I like to keep the story twisting and turning. So what I am doing is a fate worse than death. Things that no one would expect to happen to these guys at all. This is the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman." Morrison talked about
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New York: A Love Story


Love Story", saying: "We had a bunch of different titles. We had a bunch of different names, and thoughts and ideas. But it really just turned into what it sounds like. It sounded like New York and it sounded like a love story, so it really just kind of gave itself that name. We just let everybody know." In the same interview, he spoke about whose idea it was to use classic samples on the album, saying: "Yes. It was a mix of
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Narrative communication


Narrative communication is a kind of a detached communication, where the person who is speaking is more involved in what he/she says rather than in the person who he/she is saying it to. Narrative communication is a way of communicating through telling stories. The stories are written or told and are named narratives. Most often, narratives are used to recount a story or in other cases to express an opinion or give information to circumscribe a situation like e.g. past events from the perspective of the storyteller. This use of
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Channel Orange


an artist for where I am right now and that was the aim. It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness." Once the songs were written, Ocean ordered them into what ultimately became the album's track listing and began recording them in that order. He recorded most of the album at EastWest Studios in Hollywood, near where he was renting a home
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The Russian Stories (C. J. Cherryh)


says that besides the books being a story about a girl-turned-rusalka, it is about "humaniz[ing] the experience of magic". Each characters' experience with magic is subjective as they never get to see the complete picture, and can only speculate as to what they think the "presence of magic" is causing. Bogstad calls the story "a kind of science of magics" because of the way in which the characters explore of this phenomenon. Academic Janice M. Bogstad described this series as an "unusual
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Overwatch (digital comic series)


, "we really decide what kind of story we want to tell, what's the story that we're going to tell, and then it's all about, lets figure out the best way to do this." Blizzard announced they would release six digital comics prior to the game's May 24, 2016 release, in addition to a graphic novel titled "Overwatch: First Strike", set for a release later in 2016. "First Strike" was later revealed to have a November 2016 digital release, in
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The Purple Pterodactyls


are minor de Camp and the literary equivalent of empty calories, so what? They do what they were made for—especially when they aren't gorged on but rather are enjoyed one by one as the mood strikes." Brian M. Stableford, comparing the stories to the earlier "Tales from Gavagan's Bar" by de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, rates the latter "good examples of their kind and ... more successful than de Camp's recent series of stories of a similar stripe collected in The Purple Pterodactyls." Don
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Yvette Mimieux


objects or vanilla pudding." Mimieux had been writing for several years prior to this film, mostly journalism and short stories. She had the idea for a story about a Pirandello-like theme, "the study of a woman, the difference between what she appears to be and what she is: appearance vs reality." Mimieux says the more she thought about the character "the more I wanted to play her. Here was the kind of nifty, multifaceted part I'd been looking for. So instead of a
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Ayman Mohyeldin


you don’t know this was a true story, this was a great movie," Mohyeldin said. "But, when you juxtapose it with the real Chris Kyle in the story and what has emerged about what kind of personality he was in his own words — very far from reality." Mohyeldin suggested that the real Kyle may have had "racist tendencies" toward Iraqis and Muslims, which could have caused him to go on "some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment." Host
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Weekend Edition


usually airs approximately 40 min past the start of the second hour of the program. Weekday sibling "Morning Edition" breaks up each hour into five segments, none more than twelve minutes long; "Weekend Edition" uses only three segments per hour, accommodating longer stories than "Morning Edition" typically accommodates. "Weekend Edition" begins with a sixty-second billboard. Both Simon and Garcia-Navarro use the billboard as a general discussion about what's coming up in the hour, infused with soundbites from selected stories.
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Battle of Tippecanoe Outdoor Drama


different tribes had come together under Tecumseh, a Shawnee chieftain. Quietly, they maneuvered into position and then for more than two hours, the sides clashed in what would one day become known as The Battle of Tippecanoe. This is their story. The "Battle of Tippecanoe Outdoor Drama", with over 90 character portrayals, is not just the story of a battle. It is the story of a conflict between men of different backgrounds: a conflict of cultures. It is the story of one people trying to grow and
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Cat's Eye (1985 film)


, an excellent roster of talent does try its best." Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that the opening story "is so funny and so fresh that it's a shock and a disappointment to see it come to an end in a half-hour. The movie's second short story is as dull as can be; No. 3 is kind of fun; so it all adds up to a better-than-
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The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond


contradictory. Almost every one of those crazy sentences simply stands for one of the adventures in what would be called by most people a very unadventurous life." Chesterton himself was well known for using paradox in his writings, but in one story he explains that his kind of paradox is different from Mr. Pond's: In four of the stories Pond is induced to tell the dramatic tale which lies behind a baffling paradox; in another, "Pond the Pantaloon", Wotton tells the story. In two more, "The
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story


", Gary Kamiya observed, "It would take more than a can of lighter fluid to ignite this soggy film. "A Pyromaniac's Love Story" aspires to being an offbeat comedy, somewhere between a fairy tale and a whimsical love story. What it is an irritatingly smarmy, implausible mess. A kind of slow-motion farce that ill-advisedly attempts to mingle wildly disparate realities and acting styles, [it] might have worked had its various plot strands been ingeniously interwoven. But no P.G. Wodehouse or Georges
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What's The Harm?


see unscientific or fraudulent medicine as a problem". In an interview with Richard Saunders on the Skeptic Zone podcast, Farley discussed how he wanted to try to stay focused on "concrete stories of people that actually got hurt" that he could cite with some kind of "decent documentation". He stated that he wanted to keep the format simple so that anyone could comfortably access the stories, on any browser with no flashy videos. He hopes to expand the site into longer feature stories of some of the more documented or
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What's Michael?


In 1986, "What's Michael?" received the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga. The manga was adapted into two anime OVA series in 1985 and 1988, and a 45-episode TV series in 1988–1989. Most episodes of the series fall into one of two kinds of stories. The first portrays the cats in a realistic way, living out normal lives with their owners. It finds humor in how humans observe their pets' naturally quirky behavior. The second type of story is complete fantasy in which all the animals are
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Persona (1966 film)


a story about lesbian attraction, or a parable about the artist". Bergman said that although he had an idea of what the story meant, he would not share it because he felt that his audience should draw its own conclusions. He hoped the film would be felt rather than understood. Michaels summarized what he calls "the most widely held view" of "Persona": that it is "a kind of modernist horror movie". Elisabet's condition, described by a doctor as "the hopeless dream to be
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The Seemingly Never-Ending Story


Ending Story" was "innovative", and "featured the kind of intricate development that you don't get in shows such as "Friends", "Will & Grace", "Ally McBeal" or "Everybody Loves Raymond"". Sexton noted that each of those series won the Best Comedy Emmy award in a year that "The Simpsons" aired but was not even nominated. In 2006, the episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour). The episode
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The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It


short stories in R. L. Stine's book, but the executive producers decided to film their own original story, and Stine contributed what he thought should be added to it. Stine said that the film is no different from his short stories, saying, "It's a really good, creepy adventure for kids, but it never really goes too far, sort of like my stories." Filming took place in the borough of Carnegie, Pennsylvania as well as Cranberry Township in October and November 2006. Filmed in Pittsburgh,
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Adventure Story (play)


Adventure Story is a 1949 play by the English dramatist Terence Rattigan. The play tells the story of Alexander the Great and his conquests. In this play Rattigan portrays the historical Alexander faithfully, at the same time revealing that his life was what it was because he was the kind of person who very well might have wept because nothing remained to conquer. The play focuses on the transformation of Alexander after his conquest of Persia from a military adventurist to an uncompromising despot with grand vision of a world empire which estranges him from his
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Real person fiction


It is also very popular to write fiction about celebrity couples. Communities of writers build collective archetypes based on the celebrities' public personas. Communities also develop their own ethics on what sort of stories are acceptable – some are uncomfortable with slash fiction, or with mention of the celebrity's real-life families, or with stories involving suicide, murder, or rape. Like most fan fiction, the RPF genre includes stories of every kind, from innocuous to sadistic to pornographic. Like many fan fiction writers whose subject matter is
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Wakefield (film)


by E. L. Doctorow, after the short story of the same title by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn would produce the film through Mockingbird Pictures, along with Elliott Webb as co-producer. Swicord had written the screenplay after meeting with Doctorow and discussing her ideas on how to present the story on film. She said, "I had to really interrogate the story before I ever got up the courage to meet with Doctorow, because I knew he was going to want to know what kind of movie this was
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Life in Cartoon Motion


sexually ambiguous, which prompted some questioning regarding Mika's sexuality. On this, Mika commented that he has no taboos about what he can use to tell a story or what stories he can actually tell, and said that while he believes that sexualising music is great, politically sexualising music and making the artist's sexuality the defining point of someone's music is "boring". He said about his own sexuality: "laying myself out on the table to almost a tabloid level and kind of sharing my entire personal life,
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Narrative communication


story about the person. There are two types of narratives that create the biggest impact in our lives. First there is personal narrative, second there are professional narratives. This concept explains that most of the narratives we use come from our personal experiences. When a friend or family member tells us about their day, and what has gone wrong to what is good, they are telling us how they want us to see them. History shows us that all cultures use some kind of narrative to form stories and dances to tell
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Confesiones de Invierno


of 76 in Argentina. The story of dead, missing and detained in secret, where they were locked up in solitary confinement, with his hands tied and blindfolded, listening hour after hour as others were tortured. However, this song was written a few years before the coup. Another is the love story between a boy and a girl, in which the girl was crushed by a wall, and the protagonist narrates what is happening and its impotence to save her. She scratched the stones to leave, he listens and
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Kingsley's Meadow


: Trustworthiness (September 26, 2002) Spread a Little Kindness #21 & #22 The Story of Rahab: Kindness & The Story of Nehemiah: Industriousness (September 26, 2002) Share the Love #23 & #24 The Story of Elijah: Sharing & The Story of Nebuchadnezzar: Love (February 10, 2003) Faithful Friends are Forever #25 & #26 The Story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: Faithfulness & The Story of Solomon: Wisdom (February 10, 2003) The series was given
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Hellstrom's Hive


Herbert's novel. In an interview with Tim O'Reilly, Herbert stated: "I said, 'In terms of what we want now, as we think of our world now, what would be the most horrible kind of civilization you could imagine?' And then I said, 'Now I will make... [the members of that civilization] the heroes of the story, by taking negative elements of the surrounding society and treating them as the villain.' That creates a very peculiar kind of tension." David
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One of the Missing


of them realize who they are looking at. The last section of the story, dealing with the protagonist's brother, was originally split into two parts, with the first part inserted in the middle of the narrative. The story was rewritten by Bierce for his "Collected Works" in order to highlight the subjective perception of time: what had seemed to the protagonist like hours of torture was actually a mere twenty-two minutes. This notion is also dramatised in Bierce's most successful story, "An Occurrence at Owl
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Amir Taheri


"National Post" retracted the story several hours after it was posted online. The newspaper blamed Taheri for the falsehood in the article, and published a full apology on May 24. Taheri stood by his article. Taheri's PR agent Eliana Benador defended his story. "Benador explained that, when it comes to Iran, accuracy is 'a luxury...As much as being accurate is important, in the end it's important to side with what's right. What's wrong is siding with the terrorists.'"
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Robert Olen Butler


, "The Hot Country", with Otto Penzler's "Mysterious Press" in the fall of 2012. In 2001, Butler wrote in real-time, a complete short story, "This is Earl Sandt," from first inspiration to final story, in a webcast of 17 two-hour sessions. As the author explained of the broadcasts, "What we're trying to do here is reproduce for you what is normally hidden behind the veil of private life.". The webcasts, under its webcast title
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Arkham Asylum


Dennis O'Neil and drawn by Irv Novick. In this story, it is named as "Arkham Hospital", although it is not clear what kind of hospital it is. "Arkham Asylum" first appeared in another O'Neil story the following year, but it was not until 1979 that "Arkham Asylum" completely replaced "Arkham Hospital", and the occasional "Arkham Sanitarium", as the institution's name. Also in 1979, the move to have the asylum closer to Gotham had begun; that was completed in 1980
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The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman


The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman is a documentary series televised on the National Geographic Channel in 2017. It is hosted and narrated by actor Morgan Freeman. Produced by Revelations Entertainment, the series examines some of the fundamental forces that drive humanity including love, freedom, peace, factionalism, power and rebellion. The thesis of the series is that people have more in common with each other than what divides them. Six episodes in total, the show airs in an hour long format for a total of six hours (including
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Prétear


, more complicated organisms such as animals take over the course of hours to drain entirely. Anime director Junichi Satou created "Prétear" out of his desire to work on a series for women that featured good-looking boys. Wanting to base the story on a fairy tale, he asked himself what "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" would be like if the dwarfs were replaced with cute guys. As the story took shape, Leafe became the symbol of the apple in the story. It can pass on its life
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The Story of an Hour


is making herself ill to which Mrs. Mallard insists that she is not making herself ill. Instead, Mrs. Mallard is "...drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window." This line can define that Mrs. Mallard is finally finding her independence and breathing in her new found freedom. Previously it was mentioned that there is nothing in this story that defines that Mrs. Mallard had a difficult marriage. The reader only comes to this conclusion based on what is said and described in the story. In one research article
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M. R. James


have been 15 minutes long. 2000 – Radio 4's Woman's Hour Drama presented "The Red Room", a nine-part anthology of ghost stories by various authors, told as part of an overarching story ("At a Christmas party, the young Rebecca West meets a mysterious stranger. Literary passions, among others, are aroused. What does it take to tell a good ghost story? A challenge is proffered, a battle of wits begins, as does a descent into dark imaginings.") The third
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Jeffrey Boam


-hour days working with Lucas to develop the story. The two blocked out all other commitments to create the story, building it "beat by beat". Lucas already knew many of the set pieces that were to be in the movie. During the two-week story conference, Boam worked to incorporate it all into the new narrative. "Jeff was very collaborative," Lucas said, adding, "He'd try to include both Steven's ideas and my ideas, and tried to get what we wanted done
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Forced abortion of Feng Jianmei


shared 70,000 times in the first 24 hours. "The International Herald Tribune" immediately picked up the story, stating, "The gruesome abortion incident was cast this weekend against China’s successful launching of its first female astronaut. The sad irony of the two women’s situations was not lost on Chinese netizens." Two days later, the "Global Post" published the story and commented, "leave it to Sina Weibo to point out what's important", explaining that the juxtaposition of the two new stories "[
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Ab Aeterno


awesome" and "another all-timer for the show." Maureen Ryan of Chicago Tribune also praised the episode, stating "what was great about "Ab [Aeterno]" is that it showed us a story about one imperfect, well-intentioned man caught up in this terrible struggle." Steven Kurutz of The Wall Street Journal deemed it as one of the best hours of TV, "Richard’s story was so dramatic that I found it totally compelling. Tonight’s show both told a self-contained story
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The Listeners (novel)


his job as an administrative assistant to the Chancellor for University Relations at the University of Kansas. The short stories were inspired by Walter S. Sullivan's book "We Are Not Alone", which documented then-nascent efforts to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) using radio telescopes. The SETI project piqued Gunn's interest: "...what stimulated my writer's instinct was the concept of a project that might have to be pursued for a century without results. What kind of need would produce that kind of dedication, I
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Florence (video game)


film and books regularly explored love and human emotions, but that it was missing from game design and it would be a "good challenge." They opted to move forward and create "Florence". It was the first game Wong had worked on since "Monument Valley". Wong and the rest of the team wanted to create a game that eschewed violence. Wong said, "I wanted to explore what kind of stories and what kind of dynamics we can get without resorting to violence." Mountains decided to make
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First National Bank Building (Albuquerque)


"seemed to catch our ideas of what kind of a building we wanted and what kind of a banking room we wanted, and put them on paper immediately. ...We are especially pleased with the design Mr. Trost made of the exterior of the building and believe that it requires an artist like Mr. Trost to give a building distinction and individuality." At , the nine-story building was the tallest in the city and was often referred to as Albuquerque's first skyscraper. An "Albuquerque Journal" writer described the view
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The Story of an Hour


"The Story of an Hour," is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in "Vogue" on December 6, 1894, as "The Dream of an Hour". It was later reprinted in "St. Louis Life" on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour". The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the protagonist, Louise Mallard, hears that her husband is dead, and
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Jude and Zero


Jude is to him. In "Good D", Zero says "I love you", but Jude answers that "love isn't enough." Soon after, Zero comes out by kissing Jude on the basketball court in front of millions of people, in what "The Advocate" called a "jaw-dropping episode". LaRosa said, "their story [of] him coming out in the big dramatic way he did, for me was always kind of the beginning of their story. It was an
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Teaching stories


answer or solution of some kind, or are put to use to reinforce belief. What makes them distincively teaching stories however is something different: they are likely to be open-ended, depending on the individual members of their audience for a variety of interpretations. Their purpose is ultimately to change the thinking process itself. They put at the disposal of those who know them an instrument for measuring themselves, the world and situations that they encounter. It is for this reason that the reading, rereading, discussion and interpretation of
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Leiningen Versus the Ants


used in the episode. It was parodied on the cartoon series "Camp Candy". In "Candy and the Ants", John Candy is faced with a swarm of voracious "navy ants", which he finally repels by importing anteaters. ("What kind of barbarians are we dealing with?" screams the ant admiral.) The humor magazine "National Lampoon" parodied the story in a short story called "Leiningen and the Snails", in which the title character faces a swarm of "army snails"
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Nancy Wake (miniseries)


due to differences over what approach to take, including budget, the project was called off. The production company, and director Pino Amenta, had planned to produce a definitive resistance story over eight hours. Five months later, in April 1986, Seven Network approached Simpson Le Mesurier Films, Roger Le Mesurier the producer and Roger Simpson the writer-producer, who came up with a four-hour love story. In October 1986, Nancy Wake was asked to be a consultant, after the script had been prepared, she
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Hour 25


audience suggesting words and phrases he could use. He picked three and began typing, describing what he was doing and occasionally asking the hosts and audience for help. This continued so long that the host of the following show gave him more air time. The show lasted over 3 and 1/2 hours, but he was unable to finish the story that night. Ellison came back on August 28 and continued writing. He returned once more on September 4, 1976 and read the completed story, "Hitler Painted Roses." Ellison
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Joe Hilley


the final two weeks of the 2008 Presidential Election campaign. Hilley's novels include "Sober Justice", "Double Take", "Electric Beach", "Night Rain", "The Deposition", and "What The Red Moon Knows." In addition, his short story, "Edgar's List", was included in the 2006 anthology "Heartwarming Christmas Stories". His nonfiction works include "Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader" "The Walk", which he co-wrote with former
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Just So Stories


"Paradise Lost", and "Foxe's Book of Martyrs". But in his day "A much pleasanter bill of fare is being provided for them". Boynton argued that with "Just So Stories", Kipling did for "very little children" what "The Jungle Book" had done for older ones. He described the book as "artfully artless, in its themes, in its repetitions, in its habitual limitation, and occasional abeyance, of adult humor. It strikes a child as the kind of
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'Salem's Lot


already continued the narrative in "" and "", he felt there was no longer a need for a sequel. In 1987 he told Phil Konstantin in "The Highway Patrolman" magazine: "In a way it is my favorite story, mostly because of what it says about small towns. They are kind of a dying organism right now. The story seems sort of down home to me. I have a special cold spot in my heart for it!" The book is dedicated to King's daughter Naomi.
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John Herzfeld


their goals, or screwed up their lives, or dropped the football the first time it was thrown to them. What a lot of characters share in common is this unrealized potential." When the press kit and advance newspaper stories for "2 Days in the Valley" depicted Herzfeld as "a first-time feature filmmaker" moving from the small screen to the big screen, the "Los Angeles Times" published a story focusing on the omission of Herzfeld's earlier work on "Two of a Kind". In
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry


his guidebook and posts home his debit card and other items. In the renunciation is the wonder of the impossible. South of Coventry he is joined by a young man, Mick, who remarks, "What you’re doing is a pilgrimage for the twenty-first century. It's awesome. Yours is the kind of story people want to hear" (193). Mick, it appears, works for the "Coventry Telegraph", and Harold's story of modern pilgrimage was soon everywhere, including "Thought for
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Watchmen


postmodern superhero comic, as exemplified by "Watchmen" [...] became a genre". He said in 2003 that "to some degree there has been, in the 15 years since "Watchmen", an awful lot of the comics field devoted to these grim, pessimistic, nasty, violent stories which kind of use "Watchmen" to validate what are, in effect, often just some very nasty stories that don't have a lot to recommend them". Gibbons said that while readers "were left with the
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The Listeners (novel)


pondered, and what kind of people would it enlist—and have to enlist if it were to continue?" The story was written as a novelette, but Gunn agreed to have the chapter then called "The Listeners" published in "Galaxy Magazine" after editor Frederik Pohl announced the magazine was returning to a monthly publication schedule and needed a great deal of new material. This version of the story was nominated for the 1969 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Most of the rest of the novelette was published as individual short
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Some Words with a Mummy


in this story. In the story a group of men gather together in the middle of the night to examine a mummy for the sake of "scientific discovery". During their examination they act like a group of children that just got a new toy. They poke and prod the mummy just to see what happens, this is evident when they decide to use electricity. The fact that this is going on at the Doctor's private residence and is attended by his friends only, even though they do not have any kind
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Breaking Dawn


"a way to kind of explore that concept of what childbirth used to be" in the past and acknowledged that they were "taking Bella in a new direction that wasn't [as] relatable for a lot of people." Concerning the subject of the relatability of Bella, Meyer admitted that she lost some of her relatability to the character when she became a vampire and said, "every point up until that point in the story [the transformation] I would say I could step into this story right here and
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Bubbles (chimpanzee)


, Neverland Ranch wedding; the report was untrue, but was, according to "The New York Times", "an idea that some newspapers found too delightful not to report." Another story, reported in "The National Enquirer", claimed that the musician Prince, Jackson's longtime rival, had used extrasensory perception to turn Bubbles crazy. According to the story, Jackson said: "What kind of sicko would mess with a monkey? This is the final straw. Poor, poor Bubbles." Jackson found
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Prequel


", presupposing hearers' acquaintance with the events of the Homeric epic, confined itself to what preceded the "Iliad", and thus formed a kind of introduction. According to the "Oxford English Dictionary" the word "prequel" first appeared in print in 1958 in an article by Anthony Boucher in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", used to describe James Blish's 1956 story "They Shall Have Stars," which expanded on the story introduced in his earlier 1955 work, "Earthman Come Home"
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Niš (boat)


theories and fairytale stories, but ultimately the tragedy was left to the collective oblivion. As of 2018 there is no memorial of any kind marking the event. Also, it didn't find its place in the art, except for the fictional 2014 novel "Shipwreck" ("Brodolom") by Vlada Arsić. Immediately after the accident, the stories began circulating through the city about what happened. The accent was especially on the weird circumstances of the storm, which above the land wasn't nearly as strong as it was
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Titanfall 2


campaign's five-hour length and noted that the emotional core of the story lacked development. "Game Informer"'s Javy Gwaltney compared the plot to a "buddy comedy" remarking positively that BT is a relatable character. Peter Paras of Game Revolution praised the interesting story, despite feeling the nine-chapter story is basic. He also liked BT's personality, calling it a "straight-laced 'I take what you say literally' thinking machine". He noted the interactions with the Titan successfully added more context
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