Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What with Watergate and economic woes, TV news coverage of the Federal Government rarely ventures into whimsy. On Sunday evening, however, CBS will devote a prime-time hour to a documentary about an innocent's tour of the bureaucracy during which the tourist learns little but the viewer gleans much...
...ASCENT OF MAN. PBS. Tuesday, January 7, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T. The first episode of this ambitious series, Jacob Bronowski's "personal view" of the development of civilization, carries the gloomy foreboding that the viewer may be in for a three-month brush-up course in anthropology-no bad thing, perhaps, but not an exciting prospect either. Bronowski in Ethiopia's Omo Valley musing over the cranial capacity of our earliest ancestors, Bronowski reflecting on the first stirrings of the artistic impulse before the cave paintings at Altamira -it is all ground that other popularizers have covered. Though...
...than fifty Japanese books were translated into English. Commenting on this state of affairs, Gibney writes, "Unlike the outgoing cultural explorer of the Meiji Era, the modern Japanese is like a man living in a house with one-way windows, quite clear from within, but opaque to the outside viewer...
...punches will land. Since comedy audiences usually have their guard down (they want to be entertained and they expect the pile-driving), Brooks generally succeeds. He keeps the pressure turned up high, and the laughs batter their way through. The attack is so relentless, it can leave the viewer bruised as well as amused...
Tipped Scales. Yet somehow the film never really involves the viewer. Obviously the director started out to be evenhanded, to show how any system that drains the human factor out of its political processes breeds an answering cold-bloodedness in its most radical opponents. At some point, however, he must have realized that such an approach left the audience with no one to care about emotionally. So he tips the scales in favor of the anarchists by sympathetically particularizing them a little more than he does the representatives of the state. But he does not go far enough in this...