Word: theorems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Television is proof positive of the theorem that the mere act of observing something changes the nature of the thing observed. Just look at the Louds. In 1973, millions of viewers did, as a twelve-part, $1.2 million PBS documentary called An American Family recorded seven months in the life of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Loud and their five shaggy children of the California sun. Significant anthropology or indiscriminate voyeurism, the video vérité documentary transformed the unprepared Louds into instant celebrities, paradoxically enlarging and diminishing them at the same time...
...champion that they are waiting for, but this certainty is a tribute to Le Guin's narrative savvy. Because she moves briskly without ever seeming to hurry, she makes Hugh's transformation from supermarket clerk to Arthurian knight-errant whisk by as inevitably as a theorem, as acceptably as a rabbit coming out of a hat. The author brandishes her magic instead of concealing it; when Hugh accepts his mission on behalf of the people of Mountain Town, he is given a standard-issue sword and sent out to slay a woefully worn-out dragon...