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Her enhanced physical attributes and exuberant personality, which seemed sincere, perhaps brought her initial media attention, but another element entered into the subsequent fascination. Vicariously and recklessly, the media recognized early on that this was someone chronically spiraling out of control, who could be counted upon to generate scandal and controversy. Its relationship to her, and in part the public's, was that of a rubbernecking driver to an accident. Here was a sex symbol as a car crash.
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full: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/anna-f14.shtml
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam