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...political truth of Viet Nam but to get at the particular, personal experiences of some of the Americans who fought there. He succeeded almost too well. As in all fictionalized journalism, the greater the author's skill at re-creating the minute details the more the reader wonders exactly how the writer got it all down so precisely. Glasser exhaustively rechecked details with his witnesses. As he explained recently: "I'd asked, How hot was it? Is this how it happened, how it looked?" Often the wounded demanded changes. They edited out, for example, most generalizations and political...
...contrivances of the sports world before a public crowd have something newsworthy. Sportswriters, it could be argued, may not have the earth-shattering events that direct the world (though riots in Pittsburgh may present a case), but the sports world captures that quality of life experience that the reader seeks to know and understand...
...will undoubtedly be successful: The Electric Company jolts along at breakneck pace, acharge with knockout graphics, funky score, zonky electronic effects and berserk wit. It takes healthy cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There are parodies of soap operas, TV quiz shows (Wild Guess) and the film 2001, but some of the sassiest material seems lifted from the "Chitlin...
...rerun of tenth grade. The second bananas are all first-rate, notably Judy Graubart, whose roles include Julia Grownup; Skip Hinnant, the Don Adams-style sleuth, Fargo North; Lee Chamberlin, as Rosalie the fortuneteller; and Morgan Freeman, the elongated Flip Wilson cast both as Easy Reader and a soul-sound disk jockey...
...proponents of these orthodoxies and others can be expected to raise fierce alarums. Herman Keld, a spokesman of the phonics school and one of the originators of the Pop-Up instructional spots now seen on NBC, has already warned that, though "The Electric Company will make the good reader better, the children who are confused will now be lost...