The Crystal Bucket
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Television criticism from the Observer 1976-79. The second volume of weekly columns from ten years as the Observer's television critic. The successor to Visions Before Midnight.
"A project I once put up to a television company was turned down on the grounds that I had not yet decided which side I was on. I believe there is only one side and no war. There is just television, of which the criticism of television forms an integral part. Everybody is a television critic. I have never met anybody who wasn't. The only difference is that a few of us write it down." |
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Contents
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Introduction
Hitler's faults Mutiny in the Furnace Room The weld this week The truly strong man Patrick's invisible lute Over the tarp Supermind, Superbody Rings a bell Wini und Wolf Moses hits the dirt Odour situation The Lew Testament Roots of our time My daughter Tricia The Red Sandwich A load of chunk Women's lab Bonjour twistesse Heaven help we Nershment A boy forever Chastity pants Olde rubbishe Doors Melly's golden stream |
Good hang
Tragic finish Personal freedom Not by any means full Chewing the sporran Something of themselves Unbearable suffrage Carry on creating Green beef Holocaust Manganese nodules Wuthering depths Wilde and Whistler Voyage of the Beagle Blood and Guts Howareowebees Dr Beckman's apparatus Jean-Paul Kean Island of the stud tortoises The flying feet of Frankie Foo Underneath her wimple Freezing fog situation Life on earth Exploring the medium No credit for Puccini Kodswallop |
You gonna know!
That's right, yeah Busy old night Zorba the Hun While there's Hope Not the chief Carpenter the Rain King Immaculate length of Borg Baebius lives! I'm a star! Plonking Joggers Black dog Negative, Captain Really terrible Making a moggery Mother of Shirley Williams Miss World and Mrs Mao Out to lernch |