Word: snippets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama, a television reporter will pit the loudest advocate of a cause against its most outraged opponent. Onscreen, each will be shown talking away, but the words you hear are the reporter's, explaining what the story is really about. At last, the sound picks up a snippet of the speaker's own words. This irritating parody of on-the-scene coverage is being overused by the networks. Coverage as confrontation has another effect, says a greatly troubled Senator Adlai Stevenson III: "It excludes the third or fourth choice." Stevenson gave up his Senate seat, disenchanted, among other...
...love your motherland. But does your motherland love you?" the distraught young woman asks her father, as she helplessly watches him being victimized by fanatical Red Guards. That snippet of mildly unpatriotic dialogue comes at the conclusion of Unrequited Love, a new cinematic potboiler about the Cultural Revolution that brought turmoil to China in the late 1960s. The heroine's plaintive appeal would not ordinarily seem to be politically explosive, but last week it was singled out for official opprobrium in a stepped-up curtailment of political and artistic freedom in China. In a more threatening manifestation of Peking...
...singing is often off-key and almost always bad. The acting is below the level of most House shows, an aesthetic limbo-dance of no mean difficulty. The lyrics and music were written by a dozen people in their various permutations; they are predictably uneven. Consider this snippet from...