Show The Dial Turns Be Jim Klosterman in of Portland Millions of people distinctive pairs of pairs of bloodshot migraine and a variety of aches and pains spend hours open-mouthed and watching figures leap across a TV Surveys show that over one-third of any regular TV audience simply spins the dial and accepts comes It never occurs to them that the program be that the switch which turns on the can also be snapped or that the set itself can be burned or otherwise rendered Movie hounds exhibit a similar distinguish-able from sleep only in the fact here can be noticed a slight movement of the mandible as popcorn is automatically shoved down the When was the last time you saw an audience rise from their seats during a particularly dull segment of a presentation and proceed to pelt the actors with a large array of weil-aimed missiles of varying densities and The fact is you probably never In this day and age it would be considered But you may have read about occurrences such as these in Sophocles' Athens or Shakespeare's England where rather plas encountered rather What is the difference between today's audience and the audiences of You may counter by saying rather astutely that we have attained a greater civility than our But what is uncivil about slaying that horrible one-eyed electrical monster by flicking a switch instead of being held in its clutches for another in quiet walking out of a leaving miles of taped trash It is not being uncivil which makes the It is Our forefathers knew what they and what they liked was Let us use this criterion in judging these presentations set before When the work is take it and be as outrageous as the when it is |