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...Electronic Ceremonies," Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz examine the media's responsibility for the performance-as-reality, recalling how Charles and Di's royal nuptials were transformed into a product for public consumption by the mass invitations sent out via television, the "class equalizer." Roland Barthes's "I Hear and I Obey..." goes to obscenity's other extreme, reducing audience participation to instinctive impulse. Guido Crepax's comic strip, "The Story of O," illustrates how it is in the insidious positioning of narrator and audience that pornographic outrage finds expression; as Barthes observes from the sidelines, O's sexual organ...
Under the intense and volatile Begin, Shamir had kept a prudently low profile, first as Speaker of the Knesset and then as Foreign Minister. He watched Begin chew up such outspoken potential challengers as Moshe Dayan and Ezer Weizman. Says an "aide who has worked closely with Shamir for four years: "His calculation was the right...
...worshipers emerged from synagogues at the end of the five-hour-long morning services of atonement, they found the streets filled with speeding trucks, buses and Jeeps. By late afternoon, virtually every Israeli-and much of the rest of the world as well-knew that what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan defiantly called "all-out war" had begun again...
...that everyone else leave. He was quiet, sober, surprisingly friendly. There were no histrionics. He said that the Jerusalem matter was fatal, that he was very sorry but he could not accept our letter to Egypt. I told him I had drafted a new version and submitted it to Dayan and Barak. He had not yet seen it. I suggested he read it, but that there was no way that I could go back on my commitment to Sadat to exchange letters. Any future talks might depend on his and Sadat's assessment of my integrity, and I could...
Then Begin called. He said, referring to the new version I had shown Dayan and Barak: "I will accept the letter you have drafted on Jerusalem." I breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed that the last obstacle had been removed...