When it premiered at 2013 South By Southwest Film Festival, Destin Cretton’s “Short Term 12” enjoyed about as successful a debut as any young director could hope. It generated deafeningly positive buzz before going on to win the festival’s grand-jury award as well as the audience award. Despite such auspicious beginnings, the film mostly flew […]
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A court’s eugenics revival
Some men in their 60s and 70s are suing the state of Massachusetts for branding them “morons” as children and locking them away in the Fernald State School, a hideous institution where they were abused and fed radioactive oatmeal as part of a science experiment. A Boston Globe story describes the men as “among […]
