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But in an evocative (if self-serving) piece in The New Yorker , Raphael notes that his original script was ultimately "blanched of all the duplicity that made it alive" for him, that at every turn Kubrick took out details of personality in pursuit of an underlying archetype.
If people are unhappy now--thanks to contentious, self-serving news writers who are more bent on garnering attention through controversy than they are through enlightenment--they are going to be miserable when they realize what they have done to themselves.
The editorial described Sonia Gandhi as "stiff and inarticulate" and said many people considered her "a ventriloquist's puppet and an instrument of a self-serving coterie."
Readers knew there was going to be a fair measure of boasting and self-serving in that section.
He is correct to identify the glibness, guile, and style with which Reed manipulates mass audiences, but he doesn't point out that this masks a dark, self-serving ambition.