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Payola, Golden Eggs and Greed...
...especially pitiable to watch the eyes of the ladies grow round with greed as pheasants and lobsters, sorbets and desserts, are presented to them. Even those who do not betray their appetite by staring, who continue to talk with animation of other subjects, give themselves away when, without warning, a polite and cultivated syllable will suddenly drown in an excess of saliva. Yet it is a reckless woman who dares take more than a small slice of some favorite dish, for should she eat as much as she likes, she will simply faint dead away, as the corsets they wear...
Other films on the program are more interesting visually, but the most topically amusing short is one by Bruno Bozzeta called "Self-Service," a parable of industrialization, energy consumption, and insatiable greed. Mosquitos in search of a square meal keep trying to attach their snouts to a human's skin despite inevitable smushing. When the human falls asleep, skeeter entrepreneurs erect oil wells and canning factories to the gruntlement (that's the opposite of disgruntlement) of skeeters everywhere. But the human wakes up, and the gibbering insects flee to the sanctuary of a church, where the Great Fickle Finger...
Fourth, intellectuals can generally be trusted in the most prosaic sense of that term. Intellectuals tend to believe in the life of the mind and that belief exists independently of sheer ambition or greed. The ability philosophically to accept defeat at the polls or in party councils is a factor of one's ability to function in a world in which that kind of success is not as important as it is elsewhere. Intangible although this may be, it lends a quality of independence of judgment and action which sets a different and better standard than electoral success...
...reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib 's own TV outlet...