It meant ruckling his sock right down, and nobody likes a ruckly sock, but this was no time to be stopped by a ruckle.

Taking Gomery's well-argued point, it still seems that a new kind of publicity and new sets of social practices that can be shorthandedly described as television did replace the cinema as the central site of phantasmatic Americanness at this historical juncture.

A master of simple, solid, apoetical, reportorial English.

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