Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is very magnificent, but it's also very expensive. Let's come down to reality and talk about some good-time cheap entertainment. A true New York City favorite is the Sabrett hot dog. For 50 cents you get the world's best all-beef (well, maybe mostly beef) frank with mustard, onions and sauerkraut. Have it with the works and that New York City flavor will stay with you for the rest of your vacation...
Mallardi believes strongly in the ideal of the suffering artist. According to her, no true artist, including the photographer, should expect to make a dime from his or her work. "Every great artist came from poverty," Mallardi told me. "The worst thing was to go home and tell your family. Now the arts are being permeated by the middle class, and the middle class is funding mediocrity...
...does, the reader thinks, his eyes opened by Morgan's perception of Americans as "the true existentialists ... Anxiety is the price that must be paid for boundless opportunity, including the opportunity to cheat the system, and not everyone can handle it." But passion does not improve the reasoning process, and when the author supports his arguments with windy civics lectures and careless unravelings from U.S. history, he can be more provocative than illuminating. Cases in point include a lame paragraph that seeks to prove "a high incidence of breakdown among men and women in public life" by linking...
Much of this may be true. McLuhan covered some of the same terrain and saw it was good. Mander hollers that it is horrible. But he punches so wildly that he arouses sympathy for The Gong Show. No source is too doubtful or irrelevant to cite, provided it can somehow be mobilized into an attack on the target. "It is known," Mander states ominously, "that light affects the testicular growth of sparrows." The author writes with such urgency that simple distinctions get trampled: "As you may have noticed, a lot of people seem to be going crazy these days. People...
...that would have baffled 2,000 years' worth of philosophers. All of his arguments hang on the Tinkertoy division between what is real and good (trees, marshes, noble savages) and what is deceitful (all artifacts of civilization, especially TV). From this it follows that television 1) obscures the true and the beautiful, 2) turns people into standard-issue consumers, 3) bombards them with artificial light and foreign images and 4) blots out all messages that are inimical to its own survival...