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...hazards of the multiplicity of new TVs is that manufacturers are dazzling customers with more gimmicks and gimcracks than an average viewer needs or can afford. One of the General Electric TVs introduced earlier this month bristles with 35 buttons. Says David Lachenbruch, editorial director of TV Digest: "Consumers are confused, intimidated and overwhelmed by all the blinking lights and digital readouts...
...women's movement and the demographic bulge are the most obvious reasons behind what appears to be a media craze for sexy, older women. It is impossible to gauge exactly to what degree viewer appetite is being served, as opposed to how much is being created, but the sudden torrent of praise for older women brings to mind a statement by the late Flannery O'Connor. "To the hard of hearing, you shout and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures...
...outset of Perjury, his exhaustive 1978 study of the Hiss-Chambers case (which concluded that Hiss was guilty), Historian Allen Weinstein cautions that the story's fantastic elements "might be better served by the attentions of a perceptive novelist." By the end of Concealed Enemies, the TV viewer may agree. -By Richard Zoglin
Though the film does arouse occasional suspense, little is left to the viewer's imagination. Betty (Winger) and Mike (Mark Keyloun), two ex-lovers, attempt to rekindle a romance that blossomed while Mike was Betty's tennis instructor. Meanwhile, Mike and his friend Pete (Darreli Larson) while away the hours getting stoned, causing trouble, and ultimately in Mike's case, losing his life. An outraged bewildered Betty decides to find out who was responsible, and as she does, slowly puts together the tragic pieces of Mike's life...
...recent Blonsky study looked into the RCA videodisc. The videodisc is a product that actively involves the viewer in choosing among 54 places in a program to start, but the video disc falied because it involved the viewer too much in a product that he or she had become to used to using as a drug. Blonsky and his colleague Edmundo Des Noes studied the product and made an offer to the ocmpany of a video program that would use the ability of the machine to involve the viewer to actively engage their semiotic interest. They wrote up a script...