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- Mania : a novel / by Shriver, Lionel,author.;
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can ... until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."--- Subjects: Satirical literature.; Novels.; Discrimination; Intelligence levels; Personality and intelligence; Trust;
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- Mania [text (large print)] : a novel / by Shriver, Lionel,author.;
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can ... until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."--- Subjects: Large print books.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Discrimination; Intelligence levels; Personality and intelligence; Trust;
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- The death of Stalin [videorecording] / by Beale, Simon Russell,actor.; Buscemi, Steve,1957-actor.; Considine, Paddy,actor.; Iannucci, Armando,1963-screenwriter,film director.; Kurylenko, Olga,1979-actor.; Martin, Ian,screenwriter.; McLoughlin, Adrian,actor.; Nury, Fabien,screenwriter.; Palin, Michael,actor.; Schneider, David,1963-screenwriter.; Tambor, Jeffrey,1944-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work) :Nury, Fabien.Death of Stalin.; motion picture adaptation of (work) :Robin, Thierry,1958-Death of Stalin.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, Christopher Willis ; director of photography, Zac Nicholson ; editor, Peter Lambert.Olga Kurylenko, Paddy Considine, Adrian McLoughlin, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs.When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language throughout, violence and some sexual references.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.- Subjects: Comedy films.; Dark comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Political films.; Satirical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Cold War;
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