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A three- to four- to five-hour experience with nothingness.
A few days ago, while seated snugly in an airplane seat on my way back to New York from Chicago,... it occurred to me that a rathe ...
Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any cr ...
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on thei ...
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a wo ...
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
One should speak of television's cold light, and why it is inoffensive to the imagination (including the imagination of children). ...
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall w ...
Beware the/easy griefs, that fool and fuel nothing./It is too easy to cry "AFRIKA!"/and shock thy street,/and purse thy mouth,/and ...
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and ...
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