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...America has always been a species of self-discovery-and self-indulgence. The English novelist E.M. Forster said that America is like life because "you can usually find in it what you look for." A man did not even have to be there to conjure up the promise and marvel; from dark, medieval Prague, Kafka imagined his Amerika. He believed that everyone there always, invariably, was smiling...
...least marvel about this Dream is Epstein's ability to draw humor from the play even as he is interpreting it in an essentially solemn way. We expect the rustics and their "Pyramus and Thisbe" to be a comic staple, and certainly John Bottoms's eponymous, stage-struck Bottom, Jeremy Geidt's paternal, befuddled Quince, Max Wright's scallion-chomping Flute and their cohorts dig up laughs you'd only guessed at, reading the play. But the young lovers, too, keep their scenes from bogging down into indistinguishable, interchangeable laments: Sloan's strong-willed and-armed Helena gets a hapless...
Such management style, however, was the company's undoing with Polavision. While the innovation was a technical marvel, there was little market for it. Home movies have never been as popular as still photography; while nearly all homes have a still camera, only about one-quarter have movie cameras. Polavision was also expensive and the picture quality often poor. The camera and a small viewer that looks like a TV screen cost $675, plus $9.95 for a 2-min. 40-sec. film cartridge. The product never took hold despite heavy promotion. Some officials within the company opposed Polavision...
...marvel at Golding's versatility despite such small deficiencies in clarity. He's perhaps the only author with whom Salinger, Joyce, and Milton would equally enjoy a conversation: Salinger for his views on children, Joyce for his ability to turn revelation into destruction, and Milton, for his vision of evil. If this hypothetical dialogue were to take place, Golding would sit back comfortably and invoke lines similar to these near the end of Darkness Visible...
...rejuvenation has already substantially improved the quality of the network news on a night-to-night basis. The speed with which television reports events is a technological marvel. Says Bill Leonard of CBS: "TV has become like radio in its instant global capability. In the past two years, thanks to the satellite and the electronic camera [giving reporters the ability to transmit from the field], we have a capability that is immeasurably larger...