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Witness to the Execution (airing Sunday, Feb. 13) is not flawless, but it is a shrewd and timely examination of TV sensationalism, which is not the same thing as being sensational. Jessica Traynor (Sean Young), the top program executive for Tycom Entertainment, a pay-per-view operation "somewhere in a 500-channel television universe," is searching for a blockbuster programming event. "We're in trouble, Jess," says her boss (Len Cariou). "Movies don't work; screen's still too small. Sports is dying. The sex boom is over. Where the hell are we going...
Stephen E. Frank's opinion piece "Follow the Money" (Feb. 2, 1994) mentions in passing the proposed elimination of the Linguistics Department as an example of a money conflict within the University. Would that it were...
...Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, as quoted in The New York Times, Feb. 7. Gates was describing an incident of the week before, in Paris, where he had participated in a conference entitled "A Visual Arts Encounter: African-Americans and Europe...
...dismayed at the irresponsibility of the Feb. 7 Crimson article, "Allegations Divide Wing," and even more dismayed to find that irresponsibility amplified by the staff editorial and the editor's note accompanying the letter from Meredith Chesson printed on Feb...
...Camille Paglia alleges in The Crimson (Feb. 7, 1994), "[t]he standard of academic debate in this country is very low," then she must take her share of the blame for this situation. Lurching from soundbite to soundbite, Paglia mistakes overblown rhetoric and ad feminam attacks for analysis and insight...