Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Investigation does function politically, however, as the direct consequence of its "apolitical" stance. As a consumer-item viewed in a dark theatre by a passive, alienated mass, film already constitutes a mystical, reified object, a spectacle that obscures the conditions of its production: that it is man-made, that it isn't a Larger-than-Life-Reflection-of-Reality, that it is merely a celluloid construct. The Hollywood artistry Petri employs, and the Ideology of Ambiguous Truth he promotes, reinforce the perverse relation between the audience and their fetishized entertainment commodity, his film becomes an exciting, confusing, reassuring, self-inclusive...
...period that for more than 20 years two of the world's three great powers have refused to mingle. Historians will one day ponder the fear of contagion that prevented the U.S. and China from exchanging diplomats or scholars, or from trading officially in even so innocuous an item as firecrackers. They may be even more perplexed by the fact that when the barriers were finally breached, it was done by Ping Pong players. This week the U.S. table-tennis party of ten men and five women is in China at the invitation of Peking. Seven U.S.-employed newsmen...
Aspiring rejasers can find ample tips in books like Joan Ranson Shortney's How to Live on Nothing (Pocket Books; 95?), which includes a 100-item check list for transforming everyday discards. A light bulb, for instance, makes a handy sock-darning egg. With blackboard paint, an old window shade becomes a roll-up chalkboard for children. By nailing upturned bottle caps to a board, the kids can make a front-door footscraper. These days, rejasers even dump junked cars neatly offshore: the hulks act like coral reefs, attracting fish-and fishermen...
...nourishment in most edibles, especially cereals, hawked to the pre-teen market. "The commercials advise your child to equate sugar with health and snacks with happiness," he complains. Choate's code would require that precise nutrient values be listed in food commercials for children; promotions based on an item's sugar content would have to warn viewers about the possibility of tooth cavities. The code would also ban more than four food ads an hour on children's programs and effectively bar all drug, medicine and even vitamin messages during youngsters' viewing time. Choate believes that...
...loses the lead in aerospace, its balance-of-payments deficit (already running to $5 billion annually) could worsen considerably. Says Richard Marshall, vice president of DMS Inc., a defense marketing research firm: "The Senate vote on the SST lost us what might have been our leading export item from...