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Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Glued to the Box (1983)
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Glued to the Box (1983)
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.
Glued to the Box (1983)
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
Glued to the Box (1983)
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
Glued to the Box (1983)
Give or take the odd anatomical discrepancy, John Berger affects me exactly like Jane Fonda - ie. any opinion of mine which I discover he shares I immediately examine to find out what's wrong with it.
Glued to the Box (1983)
Shaw said that three years as a theatre critic was the maximum before insanity set in - the implication being that anyone who lasted longer than that was too dull to be unbalanced by his nightly ordeal.
Glued to the Box (1983)
The running gag of the Grand Prix series is that whereas Murray [Walker], safe in the commentary box, sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.
Glued to the Box (1983)
The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.
Glued to the Box (1983)