Why not say it? Im bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past – it never knocked anyone out. But last year… my first opening night at the Met – I looked out and heard all that cheering… for me… And I loved it.
Our delight in any particular study art or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer waste time with setups and plot development lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety anticipation and nuance and in the process a coarsening of our discourse.
Multimedia? As far as Im concerned its reading with the radio on!
Why not say it? Im bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past – it never knocked anyone out. But last year… my first opening night at the Met – I looked out and heard all that cheering… for me… And I loved it.
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house including the vacuum cleaner offers more entertainment than the TV set.
Our delight in any particular study art or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
RIOT n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer waste time with setups and plot development lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety anticipation and nuance and in the process a coarsening of our discourse.