Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morality has improved point to increased concern for racial and social justice and to widespread revulsion against the war in Viet Nam. The majority that finds a decline in standards attributes the trend more than anything else to increased emphasis on sex, crime and violence in newspapers, magazines, books, TV and films. Another often cited cause is that "people are more materialistic...
...pronounced Pike) and Moorman established themselves as a sort of cerebral John Lennon-Yoko Ono act when Charlotte, topless, played Paik's composition Opera Sextronique. Again last week, Charlotte let her concert gown fall to her waist, but this time her breasts were covered by two 3-in. TV sets. Explained Paik with a broad smile: "By using TV as a bra, the most intimate belonging of a human being, we try to humanize the technology...
...TV Clicks. A simple tale of simple souls demands a simple style. Accordingly, Herlihy's prose was like a pane of glass, with the described objects clearly in view. Director John Schlesinger sometimes seems less interested in Buck and Rizzo than in himself, covering his film with a haze of stylistictics and baroque decorations. Buck's involuntary memory provides him with a series of erotic flashbacks; the film illustrates them with the primitivity of a comic book. Joe's heterosexual encounters are treated with suppressed smirks. During one love session he bounces up and down...
SINCE THE medium is the message in politics, or can override the message, ownership of the media has lately become more crucial than ballot-counting in determining who wins elections. Campaigns are packaged into commodities that candidates may purchase from election market analysts; TV dispenses public policy on a county-by-county basis. This could theoretically make for moral neutrality, but its practical effect enables the moneyed candidate to come into more living rooms as man-of-the people...
...back to the irresponsibility of those who made public opinion, Gilligan warmed. "This country has developed the most fantastic system of communications the world has ever known, but people living today know as much about what's going on as Mongolian tribesmen," he said. It was not just that TV, and the press failed to transmit both sides of a question to the public; they stupified the electorate as well...