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...Cronkite, is convinced that had the space shuttle Challenger flown only a few miles farther and then exploded off-camera, the story would have created far less of a sensation. The image of white plumes scattering in a giant Rorschach pattern is now engraved on every American's brainpan. Endless repetition did it: television believes that something shown only once has not been seen...
...dangerous medium if its fondness for violent action always produced a hot response in its watchers. Sometimes it does: the picture of police dogs in Alabama changed history. But repeated scenes of snipers ducking around doorways in Belfast eventually generate a feeling that this is an interminable quarrel. The endless car bombings in Beirut, the sight of young armed soldiers, arouse the feeling that we just do not belong in Lebanon...
...televise has been a controversial question. The Senate killed three previous attempts, in 1981, 1982 and 1984, to allow video coverage. Those opposed to cameras in the chamber feared that exposure would forever alter the leisurely, idiosyncratic, old-boy nature of the Senate, which allows unlimited debate and endless quorum calls, and that the public would not understand or approve the legislators' arcane customs. "Unlimited debate," said Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, "is not a pretty thing to watch on television . . . It is a messy, untidy spectacle to watch, but I think it is vital to the nation...
...evidence is at odds with the fundamental morbidity of the subject. The beauty of Rough II is that we become attached with the assassins as they are in the process of deciding the man's fate. Beckett wants us to realize that this is precisely what happens in the endless tedium that constitutes most of our existences. When you're busy, you haven't got time to think about being miserable...
Here's where John Hughes comes in. Alone in the plague of tits-and-zits teen pix, which treat adolescence as one endless gonadal giggle, his movies (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) are pretty acutely attuned to the exposed nerve ends of ordinary kids. Nice kids like Andie, a middle-class high school senior who plays nurse to her sad-sack dad (Harry Dean Stanton), puts up with the suffocating devotion of a funny dork named Duckie (Jon Cryer) and moons over Blane, a wealthy classmate (Andrew McCarthy) who maybe loves her back...