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What comes out of all of these records is the inanity of Watergate, and the bathos of the crisis-orientation peculiar to modern American politics. These plastic artifacts will only add to the mountain of information political historians will have to sift through some day in an effort doomed from the start by the law of diminishing returns, the law that characterized the entire Watergate investigation. In a larger sense, this law is manifest in our constitutional system of checks and balances. That is, no government agency is able to adequately police other agencies because the amount of information...
...racists..." shivers across the Fenway in the gray drizzle quivers a pale, unshaven man. He's baby-blue double-knit dressed chic and he's bitching at a hulking, red lumber jacketed Militant vendor who's tucked his Militant under his arm in a white, plastic garbage bag Disposable...
Unflaggingly Unabrasive. This higgledy-piddling format was market research-shaped (by the consulting firm of Magid Associates), right down to the hosts' yellow molded-plastic podiums (desks were ruled out as "authority barriers"). The hosts themselves were formatted to appeal to an untapped younger audience (18 to 49, as opposed to the Today average age, 51) that the researchers contend is out there...
...their lunch hour. Kresge, you understand, is one of the B-School's imposing, immaculate buildings--quiet, a mass of glass and brick, exuding the aura of Olympian top-management executive retreats. Over on one side of the ground floor is a cafeteria where some of the secretaries eat plastic-wrapped sandwiches and drink half-pint cartons of Lo-Fat milk off of plastic trays...
Symbols of this show's problems abound. It was mounted by a museum committed to the plastic arts of painting and sculpture and directed by, of all people, that museum's former curator of painting. Not too surprisingly, the show basically tries to prove that photography is nothing more than "painting with light...