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This director quit a science history Ph.D. at Princeton after having a glass ashtray yeeted at him by his advisor, Thomas Kuhn. (15[1])Death threats (15[1])led this director to omit mentioning an insurance fraud scheme via amputation that is ubiquitous in the title “Nub City” of one of his films. In a film by this director, a man in his eighties dwells on 11 lessons like “get the data” and “rationality alone will not save us.” While working on a film that ends with close-ups on a tape recorder, this director of Vernon, Florida told (*) Philip Glass that his music wasn’t repetitive enough. That film by this director features several extreme close-ups on a hypnotist’s clock, the schedule of a TV channel showing The Carol Burnett Show, and a spilt milkshake. This director of The Fog of War invented the “Interrotron” while (10[1])working on a film that uses actors to restage testimony in Randall Dale Adams’s trial for allegedly killing a Dallas policeman. For 10 points, name this director of The Thin Blue Line. ■END■

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