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The Interview
What do you understand by the expression “Thumbprints on his windpipes?”
Celebrities often feel that they have been made the beast of prey through interviews. Saul Bellow was interviewed on many occasions but he always felt uneasiness. Once he described interviews as being like thumbprints on his windpipe. He considered it as an assult on his person. It was because that the interviewer created too much tension and pressure to feel suffocated. He felt as if he had put his thumbprints on his windpipe.
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What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?
Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?
What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, ‘The Name of the Rose’?
Talk about any interview you watched on television or read in a newspaper. How did it add to your understanding of the celebrity, the interviewer and the field of the celebrity?
The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio, or television.
Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass celebrities with very personal questions.
If the interviewer Mukund Padmanabhan had not got the space in the newspaper to reproduce the interview verbatim, he might have been asked to produce a short report of the interview with the salient points.
Write this report for him.
[The teacher should be able to help the pupils in what to include and what can be omitted.] [We could also provide a short report of an interview as a sample.]
In what way have the interviews become a commonplace of journalism?
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What has happened over the last 130 years in respect of the interview?
Why do most celebrities despise being interviewed?
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Why do some great writers dislike being interviewed?
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Why do some celebrity writers hate to be interviewed?
What was Lewis Carroll’s opinion of interviews and autographs?
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What was Lewis Carroll’s attitudes towards being interviewed?
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What drawback of interviews have been pointed out by Lewis Carroll?
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