Word: en
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...processes by which an audience experiences television in order to buttress his argument. Do people care all that deeply about what they see on the tube? If they do aren't they first primed by commercial manipulators who bombard them with verbal publicity? And even if they participate en masse in the creation of a body of cliches, might that not be the most telling criticism of the culture...
...fact that the Chinese know Nixon, respect him, and feel that they understand his and Kissinger's way of thinking and political philosophy; better the devil they know than the one they do not. Second, they feel that reactionaries in general are easier to manipulate. Third, Chou En-lai is reported to doubt whether McGovern can ever enact the reforms he has promised, even if he is elected. In particular, Chou is suspicious of the McGovern plan to withdraw American troops from Western Europe. If that happens, the Chinese reason, the Soviets may simply add five more divisions...
...doesn't seem that such a relationship can endure, although we are made to endure every cloying moment of it in The Public Eye. He (Michael Jayston) is a highly paid English tax accountant; she (Mia Farrow), a slightly wilted California flower child marooned in London en route home from Katmandu. They first meet in a restaurant, where she is a waitress, when she accidentally spills chicken with caramel sauce all over his proper blue suit. She is breezily apologetic. He is unaccountably enchanted...
...incumbent President can readily command a surface loyalty, it was no small achievement for Nixon to hear himself praised from the rostrum in strikingly similar terms by Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan and Ed Brooke. The smiling faces of such onetime villains as China's Chou En-lai and Russia's Leonid Brezhnev flashed on the convention screen in happy toasts with Nixon, and there was not a hiss in the hall...
...Paris seemed to be en vacances, and the city belonged to the tourists; Rome was closed down for ferragósto, Italy's best-loved annual holiday; Bonn seemed a smaller town in Germany than ever. Where had all the Europeans gone? They had taken to the roads and beaches, turning the Riviera into an ever more delirious nightmare of traffic jams and suntan...