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...intentional. The hope is that the "houseguests" will decorate their prison themselves. But if anyone wanted to put a warm, fuzzy face on VTV, Big Brother is not it. (In fact, Romer comes off rather like Christof, the controlling, vaguely European creator played by Ed Harris in The Truman Show.) The participants, to be chosen this week, will have no privacy and no respite; a 24-hr. website will stream video from selected cameras in the house. "When you walk through a city, you look through windows and wonder who is living there," says Romer. "That curiosity is completely satisfied...
Apart from Harvard's plentiful crop of Truman scholars--who are obliged to take a governmental job in D.C. for the summer, at least--it's difficult to find anyone who'll be working inside the Beltway...
...Truman calls for $40 million of aid for Greece and Turkey before a join session of Congress...
...November Republican presidential candidate Dewey ahead in University and national polls, but underdog Truman wins. Yale beats Harvard...
...ventured out of my cocoon, briefly, to see what I was missing and got hold of a Logitech WebCam ($79, after a $20 mail-in rebate). The cigarette-pack-size camera has begun shipping bundled with software that makes it easy to create a Truman Show--starring you. A CD that installs the camera also helps you create your own point, click and broadcast site at SpotLife.com which will host your exhibitionism for free. Of course, as is always the case online, free means you have to register and give up some of your privacy. But do we exhibitionists care...