Word: medium
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...case. As of July 8, 1974, no company had been forced out of business as a result of OSHA regulations. Furthermore, the average actual per violation fine incurred by employers has been less than $26. Most importantly, both National Safety Council and OSHA statistics show that small and medium-sized firms have the highest accident rates of all business, implying that such firms are perhaps those most in need of regulation...
What was it all about? Presumably no one believes that awards have a more than fortuitous connection with quality in film. As a view of a medium laboriously patting its own back, the ceremony is without equal in the world. But how can so much narcissism be combined with so little real glamour? It is the lack of illusion that makes Oscar night look moribund. There is a point when disbelief can no longer be suspended: O.J. Simpson is not Gary Grant, and although Jacqueline Bisset may be the most beautiful girl in the world, she is not Ava Gardner...
...Maysles say that Grey Gardens is not a documentary--they prefer to call it "a non-fiction film." The documentary medium tends to imply that the camera is neutral, passive, recording life exactly as it reveals itself in front of the lenses. This pretense is discredited somewhat by the suspicion that people behave differently under the eye of the camera than they would otherwise. No such claims are implicit in the style of Grey Gardens--both of the main characters direct their attention, words, and action toward the camera. But one doesn't get the sense that the Beales' "performances...
With eight shows on the air, watched by an estimated 120 million Americans weekly, Lear is the most successful entrepreneur in the history of the medium. However, he considers himself "a writer, first and foremost," and is the most trenchant, uninhibited and influential of the TV breed. Not since Disney has a single showman invaded the screen and the national imagination with such a collection of memorable characters. Indeed, perhaps no American entertainer has created so raucous or raunchy a crew as Archie and Edith, Maude and Walter, J.J., the Jeffersons, Sanford and son-and this season's most...
...more genteel era, publishers rarely spoke bluntly about a book as a piece of property. The literary soft-sell continued into the heydey of radio on such programs as Author Meets the Critics. Television changed all that. A striking early example of the medium's effect on book sales was provided during the late 1950s by Alexander King. An erstwhile adman and former drug addict, he was the author of a scurrilously amusing book of reminiscences titled Mine Enemy Grows Older. Each time King appeared on Jack Paar's show, the sales figures of his book soared...