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Many critics have not taken well to Dayton's movies, calling them "desultory," "terribly trite" and "poorly acted." Dayton is unfazed. In his view, the critics that count are the audiences who flock to his flicks. The professional ones can go to . . . err . . . heck...
...That the kind of corporate shenanigans detailed in Network have public consequences, and that someone - the FCC, those concerned ladies up in Boston - would raise a hue and cry about the odd programming coming out of the tube? That in real life, network executives tend to err on the side of timidity rather than on the side of even innovation, let alone the sort of madcap invention Chayefsky has them endorse here? That realism is fatal to the kind of social-science fiction he has written...
...rouse themselves around 5 a.m. to give the hairdressers and makeup artists time to work their magic. They also stay late to try on and approve the next day's costumes. Even so, they are cosseted and primped all day long so that in every shot their looks err on the side of the fantastic rather than the realistic. "We treat them as if they were American Jewish princesses," says one crewman, "and they aren't even Jewish...
Revel feels that Socialists err in dismissing Western-style social democracy as a "class collaboration" that defuses the proletariat. Focusing on class struggle, he argues, serves "less to transform the condition of the working class than to prevent capitalism from functioning." For his part, Revel prefers the libertarian inequalities of modern capitalism to "an inequality in penury under the control of a dictatorship...
...precedent, Collester concludes that in New Jersey "it is clear no one has the right, constitutional or otherwise, to be a martyr or make his child a martyr." This view, too, has its ethical supporters. Says Arthur Dycks, professor of ethics at Harvard Divinity and Medical Schools: "One should err on the side of saving this woman's life. Doctors should keep people alive. Otherwise, hospitals become Frankenstein monsters...