Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Report on Chain Broadcasting, acknowledged by most critics to be an effective guide to broadcasting, but its final effect was nil. Its definitions of "public interest" programming were read by each station according to its own proclivities; so were its commercial vs. "sustaining" program regulations. Barnouw finds this ritual the classic cycle of attempts to alter programming. The FCC "power move" caused counteracting Congressional "power moves": "speeches of protest: demand for investigations; resolutions; proposed amendments to the Communications Act." Little came of FCC action, except when a commissioner's interests were the same as a manufacturer's. When RCA developed...
...over obscure points of Russian prosody) and the Government (a $69,000 misunderstanding with the Internal Revenue Service, after his failure to file tax returns for nine years, erupted into a book-length tirade). When he chooses to talk on any subject, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Iroquois ritual, listeners must simply sit patiently until he stops. Gossip delights him. In recent years he seems to have spent much of his time whittling on 19th century regional fiction and the learning of Hungarian-his sixth language...
FROM Berkeley to Bedford-Stuyvesant, scrawls of aerosol paint on ghetto walls demand: FREE ANGELA DAVIS. FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. The phrase "political prisoner" is so laminated into the radical mind that, like "genocide" or "fascist pig," it has become part of an unconscious ritual. George Jackson's death last week at San Quentin raised some fundamental and difficult questions about the meaning of the term and to whom it applies...
Alren's job is an enervating drag and his marriage a ritual of programmed indifference. For kicks he takes up voyeurism. One night his wife Lisa (Joanna Shimkus) discovers him spying on a teen-age swim party and promptly takes off for her sister's. Alren makes several attempts to lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor...
...Dead Voice. A promising young actor named Timothy Bottoms portrays Joe by turning the ritual clumsiness of a newcomer to good advantage. Jason Robards plays Joe's father with only intermittent conviction, while Diane Varsi, as the nurse, seems to be recovering from some esoteric halucinogen...