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American storytelling is too important to be left so much to television. In American TV, a spirit only modestly gifted -- and sometimes flat stupid -- sits at the wheel of a trillion-dollar vehicle. The machine, being commercial, has that tendency to veer toward the ditch, seeking the least common denominator. The medium's technological prowess -- and its relentless, pervasive presence in the society -- imposes a responsibility that its writers and producers and directors probably should not have to bear. National Bard . . . and banality. Television does its work. But there are better ways to tell a story...
...Islam in America, to learn this. It would be ignorant, if not naive, not to recognize this important influence. For these reasons, the Harvard Foundation Student Advisory CommitteeandFaculty Advisory Committee deemed the BSA project one worthy of Foundation funding. We had no reason to believe that Muhammad would veer from the topic he was invited to address. In fact, we had every reason to believe that he would constructively contribute to the discourse on rap and its influence. Clearly, this did not happen, but Galper is misguided in faulting the Foundation for this outcome...
Stateside, the authors can sometimes be plausible; once across the ocean, they veer directly into farce. The fashionable will soon be ordering their wardrobes in the Cyrillic alphabet: "Yummies -- young, upwardly mobile Marxists -- are emerging in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, imitating the clothes and music tastes of yuppies." As for international terrorism, travelers to the Middle East can loosen their seat belts: "Developing countries that succeed in preserving their cultures remain stronger and find it more difficult to justify striking out against the West." This intelligence should be a surprise to the Great Satan...
...years, Israel has been trying to steer Soviet Jews to the Holy Land, only to have most of them veer off to the U.S. Jerusalem complains that Jews who use exit visas for Israel to get out of the U.S.S.R. should go to Israel. So there was some Israeli gloating when the U.S. had to confess that it would be unable to accept most of the 300,000 emigres, many of them Jewish, who are expected to be leaving the Soviet Union during the next year. Israel said it would happily take in 100,000 Soviet Jews by 1992. There...
Beyond technique lies the elusive area of style. Kirov dancers seem to know viscerally how to put across the drama in the music. A ballerina may fall off point more than her American counterpart, and her fouettes may veer out of control. But apparently this bothers neither her nor her bosses. The dancers display an endearing, innocent pleasure in the least of their achievements; a chaste young demi-soloist, having completed her variation, will milk the audience for applause -- and get it. At the New York City Ballet such deportment would be considered inexcusably vulgar...