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...perhaps the most tasteless single snippet of this deathwatch footage, a CBS News crew taped the actual moment when Marine officials arrived to report to his family that Corporal Timothy Giblin of North Providence, R.I., had been killed. First shown on the CBS Morning News, the sequence was replayed that evening on, among others, the CBS-owned station in Chicago. As the tape finished, Anchor Jacobson apologized: "I am sorry, that film should not have been shown. It was inappropriate." NBC chose not to air similar footage its crew shot at a Marine's home in California. Said Anchor...
There is scarcely a discernible connection between the improvisers' tales. Usually after a bout of vicious lovemaking, each bard tells a snippet of a story. A Russian seduces a teen-age Polish gymnast on an ocean liner; an Armenian American on a pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love with her guide. The lengthiest improvisation is narrated by the poet Surkov, who fancies he is Pushkin incarnate. After a jealous scene with Pushkin's wife, he retells the master's unfinished tale, Egyptian Nights, followed by a parodic string of bromides: "Her black eyes flashed...
...China: Alive in the Bitter Sea shifts from one snippet of life to another, Butterfield's sad image of the country becomes clearer. But the book is far from disjointed. Each anecdote of woe, each unfortunate experience, each tale of persecution fleshes out Butterfield's vision of official happy China's less appealing underside. More importantly, several significant themes reverberate throughout the work and color the reader's perceptions of this mammoth country...
...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...