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...Always Be an England ("If England means as much to you/ As England means to me"), and though NBC'S John Hart took a smarmy look at Lady Di's old school to see how proper English girls got their special "edge," a casual television viewer might conclude that the wedding and perhaps royalty itself were magnificently irrelevant...
...transformed from a bustling peas ant into a feeble dotard, nodding off after lunch. Glenda Jackson has specialized in self-absorbed eccentrics, but, as Stevie, she makes the familiar lilts and snappings sound new. Through the subtlest shadings of this fiercely independent soul, Jackson gradually recedes from the viewer's awareness, and the gentle Stevie takes over. The film's movement toward American release has been even more gradual; it was made in 1978. Now Stevie is here, not drowning but sailing with two splendid characters and performers...
...then falling still, the limbs of this defenseless animal at rest at last. And twice De Palma exhibits his favorite technique to suggest confusion and resolution: the camera describes circles-four, six, a dozen-around his characters, ribboning them in place to force them to confront their destinies. The viewer must share their turmoil-feel vertigo...
...pronouncement caused bemusement-and some relief-in executive suites around the country. Studies conducted for ABC and NBC weeks ago concluded that CBTV and the Moral Majority had substantially overestimated national viewer support for their TV cleanup campaign. CBS News found that 30% of the member groups claimed by Wildmon denied that they belonged to the coalition...
...explanations are heard. One is the reassuring personality of whoever is the viewer's favorite anchorman. The second is the visual appearance of actuality-even when what is shown on television is an edited, or staged, reality. Reuven Frank, the crusty, capable veteran news producer at NBC, regrets that nowadays "what television does uniquely, the transmission of experience-what was it like?-is a rare and accidental accomplishment. Television has become something to listen to from the next room. So has television news." Frank scorns "split screens and zooms and star bursts and insets and flip-overs" to give...