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NOSTALGIA BINGE TV The root meaning of "nostalgia" is "homesickness," and the evidence from the popular arts these days is that we are all getting very homesick. There is, for one thing, a sort of...

TELEVISION (February 1975)

TUBE AS MEDIATOR TV The potential of television to do more than spread entertainment over a wide area has been much talked about but seldom explored. An interesting experiment is underway on the...

MEDIA: America's Big Ben (January 1975)

AMERICA'S BIG BEN MEDIA Well, we are approximately one-third of the way through the Bicentennial celebration now; only two more years to go. There haven't been many big, noisy festivals yet, but a...

MEDIA: INSIDE THE OVAL OFFICE (January 1975)

INSIDE THE OVAL OFFICE MEDIA During the week before Christmas, ABC presented "The Missiles of October," a three-hour dramatization of what went on in the White House and the Kremlin during the...

Media: Wilbur Mills and Lenny Bruce (November 1974)

port of military dictatorships around the world, even to creating military dictatorships where none existed; to our consequent violent and often effective opposition to democratically elected...

THE PRESIDENT ON TELEVISION: (March 1974)

street which Bart persuades the townspeople to build. writer, producer, lyricist, etc. There are two separate But as the camera zooms back from this scene, it re- roles in which...

MEDIA: (January 1974)

'RELIGIOUS AMERICA' The unwitting message of the new series on the Public Broadcasting Service entitled "Religious America" is that religion in America is generally as detached and vacant as...

MEDIA (November 1973)

AFTER VATICAN IV MEDIA For network producers, there is still a distinction between "drama" and "movies" on TV. "Drama" conjures up those intense, stage-oriented works of long ago on "Studio...

MEDIA: Billie and Bobby (October 1973)

BILLIE AND BOBBY The Bobby Riggs-Billie Jean King extravaganza had all the earmarks of a pure media event, an enormous creation sculpted out of thin air for the promotion of after-shave lotions,...

NIXON'S SECRET STORM (July 1973)

_9 | _9 _9 O WATEnGATEO _9 _9 _9 _9 NIXON'S SECRET STORM MEDIA The Nixon Administration has long shown a fear of the media, a fear which has finally proved well-founded. Testimony from the...

BOOKS (July 1973)

quit tampering with his work. The irony of his career is that his reputation for pleasing the movie public is exceeded only by his reputation for antagonizing movie executives. At least two...

The Louds of Santa Barbara (March 1973)

THE LOUDS OF SANTA BARBARA MICHAEL MURRAY Seven months in the life of 'An American Family' Over the past few weeks I have seen 10 of the 12 episodes of An American Family, the now...

BOOKS (January 1973)

BOOKS The essence of an American tragedy The Best and the Brightest DAVID HALBERSTAM Random House, $10 QUINCY HOWE David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest recaptures, recreates,...

The Stage (February 1972)

I WAN A TEENAGE JI~qUS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE STAGE Jesus has never really made it on the stage, for a number of good reasons, and despite the large quantity of gospel stories and...

THE STAGE (April 1971)

ALBEE'S END GAME THE STAGE Legend has it that in every New York theater pro- duction there is an individual who has the "muscle," and whose will dictates the final result of the hectic...

THE STAGE (February 1971)

WE BOMBED IN CATONSVILLE THE STAGE The napalm burning of 378 draft files in a Catons-ville Maryland parking lot in 1968 was itself an intentional act of theater. It is hard to separate that first...

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