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One of the biggest shortages is in home computers. An estimated 2.5 million will be sold this Christmas, nearly twice as many as last year. But such manufacturers as Commodore and Atari have been able to fill only about two-thirds of their orders. The home-computer price war that...
Two days after The Day After, the Public Broadcasting Service showed a film that was strikingly similar and strikingly different: Cambodia and Laos, the ninth installment of its seemingly interminable history of the Viet Nam War. Compared with the 100 million people who watched the imaginary bombing of Lawrence, Kans...
of those friendly Kansas voices asking permission to strike this or that "target." One sensed an eerie beauty in the way the bombs cascaded through the sky, and in the answering orange flames that surged up out of the jungle. There was little bloodshed in Lawrence, Kans. We could ad...
everywhere. One man lay drenched in it-with only the movement of one eye showing that he was still alive-and the mattress beneath him was drenched too. One recalled Lady Macbeth's outburst of horror: "Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood...
No docudrama, on the other hand, no matter how well intentioned or how skillfully made, can avoid the taint of artifice, of things having been manipulated to make a point (or just a profit). Even in The Day After, much of the power came from the quasidocumentary idea that nuclear...