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...that it turns issues into slogans. TV concentrates almost exclusively on confrontations, statement and counterstatement, all reduced to brief segments of video tape. TV also demands filmable ritual: the waving placards and red-white-and-blue streamers of the quadrennial conventions, celebrated with the ceremonial jollity of an Easter egg hunt perpetuated for children who have grown into sullen adolescence. When TV has finally crowned its Muppety candidates, it reaches for their purses. Of the $60 million in federal funds that Reagan and Carter spent to campaign against each other, more than half went to television. Overall, candidates for federal...
...qualifying meet for AIAW Nationals in March. After they got back late Tuesday night, they spent Wednesday recuperating, then left Thursday afternoon for the Ivy League Championships at Brown University. Next weekend doesn't look any more restful--the Crimson aqua squad will send qualifiers to the Easter Championships at Pitt...
...former hostages accused the three American clergymen who visited them last Easter of having been overly sympathetic to their Iranian captors and of having given the American public a false impression that the hostages were being treated well. The ex-captives recalled that one of them had given a clergyman a written message complaining about mistreatment, but the clergyman turned the note over to the Iranian guards, who then treated the Americans even more severely. Sergeant Lopez told a member of his family: "If you see that Reverend Rupiper, spit in his face for me." Lopez was referring to Darrell...
That too is symbolic: as individual human beings, the hostages have all but vanished from the world's sight. No outsider has seen the main group of hostages since April 6, when a number of American clergymen held Easter services in the seized U.S. embassy. There has been no reliable word on how they are being treated since July, when the Iranians released Richard Queen, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis. Queen reported that for a while after the embassy seizure the hostages were often bullied, and even threatened with execution, by their militant captors, but that early this...
...looked forward to getting away from him. Every time I got called to the coach's office, it was, "Oh, damn, what did I do? I didn't do anything, did I?" And then he'd just want to say goodbye before I went home for Easter...