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“at sixty miles an hour all you can hear is the ticking of the
clock.” That would be a very poor ad, indeed, for a TV
generation that has to be with everything and has to dig things
in order to get at them. So avid is the TV viewer for rich tactile
effects that he could be counted on to revert to skis. The
wheel, so far as he is concerned, lacks the requisite
abrasiveness.
Clothes in this first TV decade repeat the same story as
vehicles. The revolution was heralded by bobby-soxers who
dumped the whole cargo of visual effects for a set of tactile
ones so extreme as to create a dead level of flat-footed
deadpanism. Part of the cool dimension of TV is the cool,
deadpan mug that came in with the teenager. Adolescence, in
the age of hot media, of radio and movie, and of the ancient
book, had been a time of fresh, eager, and expressive