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(vivid, unprecedented, nevertheless, moment, cowardly, windpipe, perpetrated, consented, supremely, ordeal)
It is ______ and vile. No respectableman would ask it, much less give it,” Yet Kipling hadhimself _________such an ‘assault’ on Mark Twain onlya few years before. H. G. Wells in an interview in 1894 referred to ‘the interviewing _________’ ,but was a fairly frequent interviewe and forty years late rfound himself interviewing Joseph Stalin, Saul Bellow, who has ______ to be interviewedon several occasions, _________once described interviews asbeing like thumbprints on his _____ Yet despite thedrawbacks of the interview, it isa _________serviceable mediumof communication. “These days, more than at any other time, our most _________ impressions ofour contemporaries are through interviews,” Denis Brian has written. “Almost everythingof_______ reaches us through one man asking questionsof another. Because of this, the interviewer, holds a position of _________ power and influence.”

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Cowardly, perpetrated, gordeal, consented, nevertheless, windpipe, supremely, vivid, moment, unprecedented

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