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...still chortles in glee on seeing beams of light bounce off a hand-held mirror and play around the room. Bessie's sister, told she cannot smoke in a hospital, replies with steely illogic, "I'll be very quiet, then," and lights up. The daffy aunt, addicted to a soap opera, dresses to the nines for a character's wedding...
...pregnant, and not some distant feminist or crisis-prone soap opera character. I had to decide whether to have an abortion or bring my fetus to term. For a month I had been feeling moody, physically ill and consistently hungry. Yet there was something very exciting about the realization that I was pregnant, that I was fertile and could conceive; I couldn't help thinking that I could give birth to a baby who would perhaps love its mother very much and grow into a wonderful human being...
...should have expected that the first court case to claim a huge television audience would center on municipal-bond trading. With a famous name linked to a sordid crime, the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith fits neatly into the usual daytime schedule of leering soap operas. For the same reason, it has turned out to be a test of whether TV cameras will turn the law into a brand of vaudeville. In a case full of senatorial bar hopping and a parlor game called Vegetable, it's already difficult to keep in sight the serious charges -- rape and battery...
...billboard seems just the right size for the American landscape, while its boldness seems the perfect mirror for the American sensibility. From the sentimental images that sold soap in the 1920s through the stark, wordless Nike billboards of today, this book traces the evolution of a quintessential form of American advertising...
...nation, we have analyzed to death TV's influence on current events. For this reason, it remains a mystery to me why, with each new and sensational trial, reporters feel compelled to comment on how the television coverage has turned the players in the event into characters from soap operas or sitcoms...