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What's more likely to dispel the nerdy image of programmers and software writers--public-service commercials on TV or a big pile of cash?
Such an analysis might dispel prejudices about the “diseases of affluence” and stimulate policy approaches and research that appropriately target emerging risk groups across the globe, regardless of socioeconomic status.
"A lazy, ham actor shows up to explain to poor Ed the secrets of Lee Strasberg's "Method"--how to be "private in public"--just like on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio !" It turned out that this wasn't Dennis Hopper, however, but Dennis Hopper in the role of Ed's long-lost father--and few things can dispel the illusion of watching real people than a hack actor feigning naturalness via mannerisms recycled from James Dean and Montgomery Clift.
But other comments by Leo dispel these implications.
Tripp tells the Post that she is eager to dispel claims that she manipulated an unwitting Monica Lewinsky, or that she made the tapes to get a book deal.