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Since the U.S.S.R. translates far more foreign books, mainly scientific, than the West gets from Russia, the Soviets stand to lose millions of dollars in hard currencies. Like the agreement to pay some old Lend-Lease bills, however, it is part of a general normalization of East-West relations. Beyond...
Kopkind's insistence on the dehumanizing aspects of simulcast are purist. There are three points to be made. The first is in essential agreement. Insofar as TV dehumanizes, the viewer-listener is up against a wall, there is very little he can do in the face of what is obviously...
JUST A BARRELLOAD of shit on the way to the rose-beds." Edgar the need-up army officer in Play Strindberg, referring to his wife himself, marriage, life is general. That cheery thought illuminates the combat between Edgar, his failed actress of a wife Alice and a cousin Kurt who...
Other companies have been experimenting with disks, but none have yet squeezed more than 20 minutes viewing time onto each side. In order to produce the high frequency signals needed to create a video image, the disks have to spin up to 1,500 revolutions per minute; at that speed...
F.T.A. (which translates euphemistically as "Free the Army") works better as propaganda than as entertainment. Except for a bit with Donald Sutherland sportscasting the war as if the combat zone were a huge football field, the skits are heavyhanded and almost devoid of humor, the songs sing-along antiques from...