Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film merely tells the story of an unexceptional Indian family. Father dies, mother takes job to support son, son eventually goes away to college, mother eventually dies; that's all that happens. Aparajito is an exceptional fine film because of Ray's ability to use the medium to express compassionately the complicated emotions of simple people...
...another angry Democrat!" I am not; I am an angry citizen and voter. Everyone knows that TIME likes the Republican Party-you say so yourself, and it is your privilege and prerogative to like whomever you please. But it is not your right, as a public news medium, to report the events in such a slanted, one-sided manner as to make one party appear all "white" and the other appear "black...
...source. The broadcasts come not from Havana, but from Ciudad Trujillo's Radio Caribe. A month ago, to get revenge on Washington, a former friend now cold to him, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo began vilifying the U.S. with a powerful transmitter-20,000 watts on medium wave, 50,000 watts on short wave...
There was one curious literary note that Mao Tun failed to mention. In 1958, the year of the great economic leap, the Writers and Artists Union announced plans for a literary leap as well. Mao Tun, like others, was assigned his quota: one long novel, two of medium length. As everybody in the audience knew, Mao Tun has produced no novel since. In fact, the pen of China's most important living novelist has been curiously still ever since Communism took over...
Such complaints may be unduly crotchety: TV unquestionably provided memorable and sometimes brilliant convention coverage. But it also raised serious doubts about the medium's ways and values in the face of big news...