It wouldn't have been exactly like a modern job interview, because early humans had no resumes or Linked-In or letters of recommendation to guide them.
Frost's second legacy, Birt said, was he inventing the modern interview.
And that proved to be the case". Hopefully the modern interview process cuts down on such lapses in judgement, but with 12 managers leaving their post in League Two already this season, perhaps not.
The modern interviews become a voice-over, which is layered over flashbacks, and the contrast between words and images reveals that our narrators have been cherry-picking details and, at crucial junctures, flat-out lying.
Maitland peppers his movie with archival news footage and audio from the day, along with more modern interviews.
Judge Campuzano's ruling set off a public clamor here, especially after radio commentators learned that she had described the suspects' leader as a "modern Robin Hood". But in interviews, the judge defended her decision, saying she had found many contradictions in the five men's confessions, as well as evidence suggesting that they had been tortured by the police.
A more individualized look is also a modern way to approach an interview, she said, suggesting that the applicant is creative, free-thinking and confident.
"The story that I'm telling," Mr. Lightman said last week in an interview, "is a modern American tragedy -- the tragedy of how we're living our lives at the turn of the century in the United States.
She was a late-20th-century woman, in a modern, troubled marriage, being publicly interviewed for an 18th-century job as first lady – a job only available through the achievements of her serially philandering husband.
"At first my story was a modern 'Charterhouse,' " Bertolucci explained in an interview in the Cahiers in 1965, "but then it gradually developed into 'Sentimental Education.' " Fabrizio is not a revolutionary; he is playing at being a revolutionary, because that is what young people in the postwar middle class do.
