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...uneasy amalgam of Miracle on 34th Street and the Marx Brothers' The Big Store, Fitzwilly is not helped by the surprisingly flaccid performances of Van Dyke and Feldon, the professional pixie from TV's Get Smart. All in all, the family night out might better be spent at the bowling alley...
Even during the past decade, when the creative impulse in film has seemed to be the province of European directors, Hollywood has turned out movies that at least in retrospect, have the qualities of classics. Hitchcock's Psycho inaugurated America's cinema of cruelty, with a demonic amalgam of bloodshed and violence that was not equaled until Bonnie and Clyde. Stanley Kubrick's Lolita treated the forbidden subject of nymphet-mania with cool humor; his Dr. Strangelove demonstrated that the biliousness of black comedy was as American as the H-bomb. John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian...
...speak of Borges as the greatest Argentine writer, or as one of the greatest Hispanic writers, is inadequate. While criticized for neglecting the national characteristics of Argentina, Borges addresses himself to universal concerns and achieves universal appeal. His South American background contributes to the amalgam of literatures and cultures of which Borges is the timeless, placeless hybrid...
...TIME started a Radio section in 1938, changed it to Radio & TV in 1948, when there were only 172,000 television sets in the country, then made it TV & Radio in 1956, when the number of U.S. sets had reached 37.6 million. In August 1958, perceiving that a new amalgam had developed, in which personalities in television, theater, movies and other areas of entertainment were moving in a kind of interchangeable pattern, we started a Show Business section. Now, with television reaching a point at which it is best dealt with as a separate subject, the editors intend...
...have been kicking these ideas around for a couple of years, but it is only recently that a network official decided to take McLuhan on. Writing in the current issue of Television Quarterly, CBS Public Information Vice President Charles Steinberg, a Ph.D. specializing in communications, called McLuhanism "an amalgam of camp and voodoo," "semantic nonsense," and an "alienation of humanism." And besides, he added, it flies in the face of "conventional wisdom...