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...closed system of aesthetics as well as a closed communications system. From Expanded Cinema again: "To satisfy the profit motive, the commercial entertainer must give the audience what it expects, which is conditional on what it has been receiving, which is conditional on what it previously received, ad infinitum. Situation comedies, suspense, westerns, are all redundant in that they operate on the basis of what is probable. This noninformative quality of television is particularly true in terms of the highly centralized structure of television. Because it is broadcast from such centralized sources, the programming must appeal to millions of millions...
...Jamaicans in their midst; the Swedes hate Norwegians; most Europeans hate Russians; Russians hate everybody. Frenchmen hate Germans and vice versa; Arabs and Jews hate each other. Malaysians and Indonesians hate Chinese; Chinese hate everybody. All tribes in Africa hate one another; Pakistanis hate Indians and vice versa, ad infinitum...
...Then the Wilson Committee became prominent because its report was so widely circulated that people began to browse through it in the bathrooms of Lamont. Then it was the Committee of Sixty-Eight, the Committee of Five, the Fainsod Committee, the Friendly Committee, and on ad infinitum...
...several faculty members at the meeting of 4 February for their inspiring figures of speech having to do with rurgs and umbrellas, sponges and surgical scissors, military-industrial complex (an anachronism I associate with the Eisenhower era), bastard (or was it illegitimate?) problems, ad infinitum, ad nauseam...
...taxes been higher, inflation more out of hand; never has youth faced a more uncertain future, never have there been heavier encroachments on personal liberty by an all-powerful federal government, never has crime been more ugly and broad, never the air more polluted, food, clothing more expensive-ad infinitum...