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...medium that magnifies the importance of things even as it shrinks their size, small gains loom large. Even allowing for a wide margin of shlock in the new season, some of it will be the shlock of recognition. With a gibe at anti Semitism here, a humorous insight into sexual hang-ups there, home screen entertainment is beginning to be a little less of a window on the void. It is becoming a little more of a mirror...
...Both are canny professionals who grew up with the medium. Lear served an apprenticeship as a comedy writer in the '50s and '60s with Martin Lewis, George Goble, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Andy Williams, among others. Yorkin staged such shows as Martin and Lewis's, Gobel's, and Dinah Shore's, later directed specials for Jack Benny and Fred Astaire. Together, as partners in a venture called Tandem Productions they revolutionized TV comedy by adapting a British TV hit into "All in the Family...
...main vehicle for it, the special medium through which he staked his claims as seer, prophet and bard, was the hand-etched and -printed book. Part of Blake's uniqueness is that you cannot separate his writings from his art. He was probably the first major European artist of whom this was true. Illuminated manuscripts had been done for hundreds of years before his birth, but usually the script was by one person and the decoration by another, while the actual text had originally been composed by a third...
...answer is soon evident: she's always in the mood for a manifesto. "There is only art," she proclaims later. "Art that must be created. Whatever the cost." Evelyn is vague about her thesis project; she calls it "this sculpture thingie." Later we learn that her medium is "two very pliable materials: the human flesh and the human will." But from the start, she shows she has the will to dominate. And Adam is an ideal subject...
...look at a pension plan, they have to match assets and liabilities over the short, medium, and long term, whereas an endowment is primarily interested in the long-term growth,” he says...