Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS IS MARSHALL MCLUHAN: THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). The massage is administered via the proper medium, in an attempt to give McLuhan's controversial ideas the visual life they are all about...
...Hepburn and Anne Reed. Now he is the acknowledged king of Italian couture. His brown and white "head to toe" line featuring chain-printed silks was the hit of Rome's recent spring and summer collections. Though he has a staff of nearly 200 at his headquarters on Via Gregoriana, he has just opened a second salon in Milan to keep up with orders...
Every other year, Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has a large show of contemporary American paintings, valiantly tries to name the four best. For this year's show, the Corcoran invited 21 artists to submit their work; it selected 21 more entrants via open competition. The winners, picked by three top museum directors, were all cool, imageless (no pop), and all by invitees...
...represent a common failure: the attempt to do a job demanded by the new environment with the tools of the old." To a degree, the same could be said of this book. It is stimulating enough, yet for best therapeutic effect, McLuhan's massage should perhaps be administered via the neo-tribal TV tube...
...Bradbury's too-nifty plot: at the beginning all books were burned; now all will be rescued, in fact, memorized. That's some triumph; it negates the force of the whole movie. Werner had been tending toward humanity. Having turned from a mechanical life to an emotional-life-via-books, he could have turned even further--to real experience. After all, the girl was there. It was she who teased him into realizing he was unhappy and tempted him into reading. (Julie Christie plays both the wife and the tease. As one, she looks vacuous; as the other, she looks...