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...celebration. It is the frequency of its reception that makes the real difference. When the entertainment appears daily, even hourly, the focus becomes the transmitter, not the information. This may be the only way of coping with the fact boom: personalizing information by identifying the story with the teller. Being talked about gives the politician, the athlete, the artist a legitimacy. The celebrant was once a person who performed a religious rite; now the celebrant is the creator of the celebrity. It is not strange that television broadcasters should be thought of, by some, as presidential possibilities...
...early 1974 "Citicard Centers" appeared. That is a fancy name for small terminals spotted about a bank branch; by inserting their Citicards, customers can get information about their accounts without bothering to walk up to a teller's window. Within months the terminals were set up in department stores and other retail outlets to enable bank customers to pay for their purchases with personal checks that the merchant could quickly verify. Today Citibank has terminals in more than 2,500 retail outlets, 120 of them across the state line in New Jersey, where it is legally forbidden to open...
...Cook, told how she had infiltrated the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War in Buffalo in 1973. Paid some $5,000 for her work, she mainly befriended the veterans and kept the FBI posted on their antiwar activities. Though she found the spying "more exciting than working as a teller in a bank," she soured on it when she discovered that the veterans were sincere in their opposition to the war, not under any foreign-propaganda influence and not bent on violence...
...deals best with simple ideas and emotions, conveyed straightforwardly ("I wanna hold your hand", "I can't get no satisfaction"), and because of that, runs the risk of becoming mediocre. Springsteen doesn't try to be another Dylan (and he's not), but he is an insightful story teller and rock and roll balladeer, and that is more than can be said for all but a handful of rock singers...
Bashevis Singer is a master story-teller, concerned more with the subject of his tales than with the way they unfold. The only form of self-consciousness is a simple kind, coming from the characters that often tell stories within Bashevis Singer's stories. In "Sam Palka and David Vishkover," for instance, Sam tells the recorder/narrator of his double life as a Park Avenue big-man nagged by his wife and, under the pseudonym of Vishkover, as a simple salesman in the eyes of a naive mistress. Sam's small pauses during the telling of his story, self-conscious caesuras...