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When their television sets at last went dark, the global villagers were left feeling vaguely unsettled. Seldom has history seemed so thoroughly televised. As if to validate all of Marshall McLuhan's electromystical prose, the events of Anwar Sadat's mission to Israel appeared to many to have been profoundly influenced by the participation of TV -its superstars and its world audience...
...cholesterol-depositing LDLs. Some tactics for doing that are already available. At Stanford University, researchers have discovered that middle-aged male runners have HDL levels nearly 50% higher than their peers; their levels might be mistaken for those of young women, who are naturally endowed with more HDL and seldom have heart attacks. Other studies have shown that shedding flab and following a diet rich in vegetables and vegetable oils, but low in red meat and dairy products-along with moderate drinking (a cocktail or two a day)-can also elevate HDL. In the future, drugs may also be used...
...Events seldom lead into each other. They occur, occupying the character's attention for a time, then recede into oblivion... no connections, little continuity...
...then Levanter is quite clearly more interested in profit-taking than in long-term security. His relationships are intense, but they seldom last long. "If one perceives life as Levanter," Kosinski remarked, "then perhaps relationships do not last into eternity. Drama cannot be endlessly dramatic and relationships have different intensity at different times...
...brutality of the rape scene in Blind Date adds to the fuel of those who criticize Kosinski for the insensitive treatment of women in his novels. Told from Levanter's viewpoint, the rape becomes a justifiable act, the logical culmination of his lust. Elsewhere in the novel, female characters seldom rise above the status of sexual playmates to which Levanter, and presumably Kosinski, relegates them...