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...economic, industrial and social transitions taking place in each country. Perhaps his evasion of this material is a blessing, for when he attempts to analyze American society, he inevitably stumbles. In his criticism of American vulgarity--which he seems to find epitomized in the phenomenon of ubiquitous pink bubble gum--he succumbs to snobbish cultural comparisons not unlike those indulged in by early twentieth century American Anglophiles. Such generalizing is absurd in a huge and diversified society...
...photograph can or cannot be, can or cannot do. In an effort to express their private and often idiosyncratic views of modern life, these artists apply paint, beads and hair to their pictures, cut them up and stitch them together. They explore the artistic potential of old techniques--like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize anything they can get their hands on--including plexiglass, fur and linen...
...City Manager, Chief Reagan and most members of the City Council are mechanical blocks of concrete. They are incapable of human responses. One gets the feeling that if you step on their toes a memo or some pre-fabricated oral rendition will issue from their mouths like a bubble gum ball from a penny candy machine...
When Ford became vice-president, naturally, he became better known. Liberal columnists discovered that he was more or less honest but not too bright. They quoted Lyndon Johnson's pronouncement on the subject--"Gerald Ford is too dumb to walk and chew gum at the same time," and they inveighed against Ford's defense of Nixon, against his statement just a few days before the Judiciary Committee voted that the evidence did not support Nixon's impeachment...
When reporters are unwilling to examine the assumptions they bring to whatever they report, it keeps them from understanding or even concerning themselves with the importance of what they're saying. Repeating catchy phrases about walking and chewing gum at the same time is easier than thinking, but it's less helpful in understanding what's going on. So stories focus on things that don't matter much, and when that becomes clear they shift to things that matter even less, from Ford's alleged slowness to his willingness to pick up his own newspaper. And when reporters discover...