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Since the spread of cable TV systems, the U.S. has been buried under a blanket of television. According to the Nielsen ratings service, approximately 95% of U.S. households have TV sets. But what of the remaining 5%? Some live in mountain areas like Appalachian Georgia, or the new ski-resort town of Vail, Colo., where cable TV has not yet penetrated. Some Americans cannot afford to buy a TV set, although more American homes have TV than have telephones or bathrooms, and, as the Kerner Commission reported, television is "the universal appliance in the ghetto." Thus, many...
...playing fields than theirs; boys could go alone to movies, parties, dances, baseball games, restaurants, any public assemblage, you had to go in groups or be escorted as a Date; and all this, which had nothing to do with strength, had no more comprehensible rationale than the last resort of harrassed parents (roughly equivalent to "because I said so," in turn equivalent to "history ordains it," signifying that the parents, helpess to transcend their role as evolutionary functionaries, are merely passing on the lessons of the collective past and present)--"because you're a girl." For the most unfortunate, there...
...adults off against each other, she speaks to a nonexistent lover, fakes a rape scene and pretends to be pregnant by stuffing security toys under her dress. In such a warped triangle, nothing can go straight, and after a lot of lallygagging around the mansion and a seaside resort, Director Joseph Losey provides the anemic story with an inappropriately gory ending...
Only about 13 or 14 of the 89 communist parties approved the invasion of Prague; the major communist parties in France. Italy and China opposed it, Forbath said. This disapproval, he said, made the Soviets use force as a last resort and also made them more lenient in their post-invasion tactics...
Founded 18 months ago on the site of a former hot-springs resort, the stone-and-redwood monastery compound at Tassajara was purchased for $300,000 by a group of wealthy Zen enthusiasts. There is a Japanese roshi, or Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki, 65, who gives guidance in meditation. The American director of the monastery, Richard Baker, 32, is a Berkeley graduate who specialized in Oriental studies. His 60 fulltime novices include college students-for some reason, most come from Minnesota and Texas-professors, a psychiatrist, an importer, a bookshop owner and a former naval commander. There is also...