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...Shapiro's Groove Tube 2 satirizes by rendering the subliminal visible, by making graphic the fears and the personal and institutional dishonesty which everywhere stultify the day-to-day process of living. If the above joke seems in bad taste, it is because Nixon and the war are, themselves, obscene. What Shapiro lacks in propriety, he attempts to make up in truthfulness. The result is an exciting, though certainly not flawless work...
Groove Tube 2, the sequel to Shapiro's first Channel One production Groove Tube, presents a series of video-taped episodes over closed-circuit television. Video Theater reinforces the familiarity of the medium's context by creating a living room-like atmosphere. Only thirty or so viewers watch each set in the main room and, in the smaller room the audience sits on floor cushions before one large receiver...
...incongruity of these episodes' content with America's usual television fare creates a major source of humor, but television is as much Shapiro's vehicle as his target. The romanticization of violence and the artificiality of sexuality portrayed on television are properly depicted as symptoms of broader and more deeply rooted individual and social pathologies...
...ELIZABETH F. SHAPIRO...
Harvard will be at several disadvantages, Captain Dave Fish, still bothered by a sore elbow, is a questionable starter. Reserve Rob Sedgewick, who usually moves into the number nine spot, has the flu, but senior Rob Shapiro should successfully fill the vacant position...