He was part of the new core cinema movement of the early '90s and was sort of the designated bad boy of that movement.

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Born without the fibulas in both of his legs, which were amputated below the knee when he was just 11 months old, Pistorius is regarded as a pioneering spirit and the poster boy of the Paralympic movement.

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The cathedral's former canon, the Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, said he regretted being made a "poster boy" for the anti-capitalist movement.

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