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...announce what the canny observer has concluded without aid: that airports have grown less efficient, for example, or that the poor are more victimized by crime than the middle class. Specialization, abstraction and rhetorical overkill - all have made native wit afraid to show its face. Political candidates no longer employ the folk idiom in their speeches. Humorists rarely use the short, acute idiom of Lincoln, Twain - or a Hoosier caricaturist named Kin Hubbard. A pity. In the voice of Abe Martin, a wise old rustic, Hubbard once cracked: "Ther's some folks standin' behind the President that ought...
Pidgin English. Nonetheless, this Utopia of equality produces results that are similar to those on the mainland. Honolulu's Kahala Elementary School and Palolo Elementary School, for instance, have similar buildings (concrete blocks, carpeted floors), employ similarly skilled teachers, and use the same curriculum. Yet on uniform tests, the children in Kahala score roughly twice as high as Palolo's students...
Padded Season. Aggravating the writers' plight are two recent develop ments: the cutback in network prime-time shows, which reduces the demand for scripts, and the growth of 90-minute or two-hour programs that often employ only one writer, instead of several for four half-hour shows. Most depressing, for viewers as well as writers, is the pathetically truncated, rerun-padded season. The networks now routinely air only 22 original shows, instead of 36 as in earlier years. The shortened sea son has meant that nearly one-third fewer scripts are needed...
...tracks by a 75-year-old FBI head who didn't like the program of surveillance sent over from the White House with the approval of the President. Even though there were about 150,000 people of one sort or another involved in intelligence work under the employ of the President, no men could be found to examine the "flood" of news leaks that were thought to be threatening the national security. The White House had to create its own unit to handle...
...Autumn Afternoon, Ozu cuts in for closeups, but does not employ any of the traditional optical devices to bridge scenes. That would be a little like throwing a pebble to change the reflection in a still lake. Instead, he inserts images-a staircase in shadow, an empty hallway, a narrow, brightly lit street -that not only summarize the tone of the scene just finished but establish the feeling of the one to come. Like stanzas in a poem, the scenes stand apart, enriched by what surrounds them...