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...this case, the individualist basis of melodrama. Rather than attack them, he uses them to his purposes, often subverting them comically as in Bondu, in Elena sustaining them tragically because they express the class limitations of his protagonists' behavior. The aristocrats are doomed to act in an aristocratic mode; in La Marseillaise they dance minuets while the rebels consolidate their partial victory; the characters of Regle circle as politely as the figures on the Marquis's music boxes. The masses, for their part, behave en masse...
...ironic that Robert van Leer's description of the Viet Cong torture of an American soldier is precisely the same as the mode of torture (a cage of starving rats placed over a person's head) described in Orwell...
...bureaucratic mode is quite simple. Instead of examining assumptions and issues, only consider technicate; if the challenge persists- set up calities. Whenever challenged- obfusnew bureaucratic structures to engulf it, erode it, or simply outlive...
...event in question has occurred, readmission's cases come up over six months later, when time has faded the incidents and issues into history. But the readmission's cases are important. They do more than discomfort the individuals involved; they also indicate the nature of the CRR and its mode of operation...
...image resolution and the range of information already committed to available film. This is a flimsy excuse. The research time and money represented by EVR would have equally sufficed to develop and perfect a tape system subsuming EVR's picture resolution and information access while also having a record mode compatible with most TV cameras. Excepting time-choice, EVR does not alter the general complexion of television viewing....EVR is an extension of the CBS network, a tautological tool-not a tool for creating a new variety of network. It fails to put the 'consumer' in direct contact with...