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...anyone who has watched the gogglebox over the past six months knows, the television networks sold almighty quantities of advertising time to the makers of home video games. During the pre-Christmas buying frenzy, George Plimpton and that anonymous smug kid argued between halves of everything except the disarmament talks over whether the viewer should spend his last dollar on Atari or Intellivision. The commercial blitz paid off for all of the home console manufacturers. Mattel shipped more than 600,000 Intellivision units, a 300% rise from 1980. And Atari's Chairman, Raymond E. Kassar, said sales were "a magnitude...
...Real blood-and-guts American rage and confession would expose the tasteful, arid Englishness of the Reed-Bryant quarrels and love scenes (although there's a lulu of a fight when she starts beating on his pretty face). Anyway, Nicholson is mesmerizing, playing O'Neill as a smug asshole. What other actor would have the courage to give a performance this dark and disgusting...
...ratings have doubled in the last two years, but I still view the entry of the cultural cables as a challenge. We will have to provide programs that, the audiences can't get elsewhere." Viewers, whose careers and livelihoods are not at stake, may be excused a small, smug smile as they prepare for the battle to come. They can look forward not only to something good to watch, but to a whole lot of good somethings...
...degree of legitimacy that American backing gives in international circles. Pretoria evidently found the new Reagan administration's support helpful last January when it reneged in its agreement to submit the territory to U.N.-monitored elections. U.S. backing of its puppet government in Namibia bolstered the Botha regime's smug refusal to recognize the Soviet-backed Southwest Africa People's Organization as the best representative for the peoples of Southwest Africa. Reagan and the United States can feel justified in demanding the guarantee of minority rights in Namibia. But past experience indicates that South African foot-dragging serves only...
...indebted to the populist film comedies of Frank Capra. It was the story of got-rich-quick innocents coping with the darker side of the American Dream-the fear that even with money and social access they could never belong. Eleven years later, the Clampetts are settled, even smug, with no remaining sense of wonder about the world. CBS has concocted a wacko two-hour plot about using moonshine to replace gasoline. But there are no warmhearted wackos to populate it, except Imogene Coca, too late to save the show as the late Granny's eccentric...