Word: oxymoronality
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...lesser returns with Big Brother). ABC, which doesn't need much help since it began airing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 24 hours a day last August, had a quasi-documentary series called Making the Band this spring. But NBC does not have a single example of that oxymoron "reality TV" on the air. Nothing to try out this summer. Nothing for the fall, either. The peacock network is momentarily without feathers--and so desperate that it seems ready to import Chains of Love, a "funny" bondage-and-dating show that was a flop when it was shown this...
...Here, after all, is the great champion of small, limited government perpetrating the Louisiana Purchase, arguably the grandest exercise of extra-constitutional Executive power in American history. But what else should we expect from the founder whose great vision of America was the Empire of Liberty, as profound an oxymoron as political theory can provide...
...baby boomers, the museum freezes under glass that deceptively innocent era, roughly from the late '60s to the late '70s, when the phrase recreational drugs had not yet become a tragicomic oxymoron. In addition to the paraphernalia collection--which resembles nothing so much as a college dorm room circa 1975--there are photos of such icons of the day as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Timothy Leary (twice!), as well as the shorter-lived Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix...
...Friends of the Arts, Long Island's oldest and most respected non-profit performing arts group, might change that. The organization aims to enrich the cultural life of Long Island (which might seem like an oxymoron) through world-class performances and arts education for kids...
Until last week Firing Line was there to remind us that TV didn't have to be that way. The show was spawned in the earnest mid-'60s, before popular culture swallowed up the middlebrow and "educational TV" became a comical oxymoron. During last week's taping, Buckley told his guests about David Susskind, the talk pioneer from the 1950s who was host of a show called Open End. "Every night he'd go on the air with some guests at 9," Buckley said, "and he'd keep going--an hour, two hours, three--until he got bored...