We expect the protagonist to be crushed by this paragon of American-macho imperviousness, but in an improbable but comic reversal, instead of interviewing his subject, the interviewer holds captive the man and his wife with a meandering, maudlin — and wholly invented — personal story: "It wasn't untrue, exactly, even though it hadn't happened".
He has opted for announcements instead of interviews, and caution over candor.
The title might easily have been reversed, since instead of interviews or narration there is just a series of performances.
Instead of interviewing shopkeepers about parking meters, I would nip down for a quick swim, cool off and forget about things for a while.
After all, the skills I had cultivated as a social worker were instantly transferable: instead of interviewing families and children, I would be sitting in a press conference or interviewing celebrities.
Instead of interviewing editors and authors, she should have asked the information technology folks at Random House and other publishing companies what they do to back up e-mail messages before purging the server.
Like a tourist observing wildlife, Mead tracks and observes brides — like one trying on a dress in a David's Bridal store — but instead of interviewing them, just stares and assigns them thoughts.
The Pakistani government seems to wonder what a senior American journalist is doing running around rural Pakistan writing about peasant women and trafficking victims, instead of interviewing government ministers in the capital.
So, instead of interviewing that guy, I talked to my friend Kate, a counsellor who knows how to dance with swords, who was at the time of our interview eleven days from marriage.
Why aren't we interviewing patients whose coverage and access to care will now be preserved instead of interviewing presidential candidates to gain some insight into their 2016 platform?
