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...burning crises divide the President and the men on his summit calendar. Administration officials say that the summits are "not a carefully constructed scenario," that they happened "by osmosis." The purpose of the sessions is not to hammer out agreements, but simply to be noticed. The meetings themselves, a McLuhan-minded diplomat might say, are the message...
...business. But Billy and John, now 26, decided: no way. Why? It was because of TV, Margolies says. TV turned them off anything that involved reading and on to entirely new ways of looking at life that their fathers never knew. Billy and John did read Marshall McLuhan, however, and earned their master's degrees in communications. They dabbled in teaching, ad copywriting, architecture criticism and still photography...
Superstar's vulgarity is less in the realm of religion than of theatrical taste. Serious Lloyd Webber and Rice fans, in fact, may well be advised to open a new chapter in the age of McLuhan by turning down a chance at the show "because I loved the record." On LP, Jesus Christ Superstar is abstract, intimate, capable of subtly engaging the mind and the imagination. Director O'Horgan's frenetic Broadway incarnation is rarely any of those things. It is, instead, a frequently breathless and occasionally stupendous son et lumière show, crowded with mechanical contrivances, and a headlong...
...Marshall McLuhan and the Carpenter Center aren't the only people interested in understanding media. This month, the Fogg Art Museum, in a continuing effort to stimulate visual investigation, is sponsoring three small exhibitions of different media--"Drawings into Prints," "Contemporary Photographs II," and "Some Recent...
...might find ironic coming from the Vatican, is a warning against concentrated masses of power or influence. The Pope attacks huge multinational corporations that can "conduct autonomous strategies largely independent of national political powers." He also warns of another "new power," the communications media. Television, he notes, echoing Marshall McLuhan, has created "an original mode of knowledge and a new civilization: that of the image...