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Some of his stories have too much unnecessary detail, while others (particularly about the shunning of his Scandinavian heritage and his 1982 arrest for the sale of eagle feathers) seem half-told.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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By using a camera to present half-told stories, reality could easily be manipulated and audiences would not be the wiser.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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The good news story in The Times is only half-told though.
Archive 2007-07-29 2007
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The good news story in The Times is only half-told though.
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In a letter dated 2-15-80 he wrote RC that “all the details and half-told events… give the story great gravity… just immense tenderness and survivor intelligence there.”
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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It is at this point that I might digress again, because to tell only of what occurred that day following my return to The Hague from England, the meeting with Torrentius, and the subsequent competition, to which I shall return shortly, is to leave a story half-told, a chicken insufficiently fattened for the expected meal.
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It is at this point that I might digress again, because to tell only of what occurred that day following my return to The Hague from England, the meeting with Torrentius, and the subsequent competition, to which I shall return shortly, is to leave a story half-told, a chicken insufficiently fattened for the expected meal.
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But though that version showed him in a better light than the various half-told narratives that have trickled out in news reports over the years, the story still is not a pretty one.
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But though that version showed him in a better light than the various half-told narratives that have trickled out in news reports over the years, the story still is not a pretty one.
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The first of the half-told tales was of the white world with its traditions of discontinuous compassion for the unfortunate.
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