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(usually, several, primitive, invention, repeatedly, commonplace, intrusion, extravagant, despise, merits)
Since its________ a little over 130 years ago, the interviewhas become a ________ of journalism. Today, almost everybody who is literate will have read an interview atsome point in their lives, while from the other point of view, ________ thousand celebrities have been interviewedover the years, of them _________. So, it is hardly surprising that opinions of the interview - of its functions methods and ________ very considerably. Some might make quite ________ claims for it as being, in its highest from, a source of truth, and, in its practice, an art. Others, ________ celebrities who see themselves as its victims, might _______ the interview as an unwarranted ________ into their lives, or feel that it somehow diminishes them, justas in some _________ cultures it is believed that if onetakes a photographic portrait of somebody then one isstealing that person’s soul.

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