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since the advent of TV. Mr. Khrushchev is a very filled-in or
completed image that appears on TV as a comic cartoon. In
wirephoto and on TV, Mr. Khrushchev is a jovial comic, an
entirely disarming presence. Likewise, precisely the formula that
recommends anybody for a movie role disqualifies that same
person for TV acceptance. For the hot movie medium needs
people who look very definitely a type of some kind. The cool TV
medium cannot abide the typical because it leaves the viewer
frustrated of his job of “closure” or completion of image.
President Kennedy did not look like a rich man or like a
politician. He could have been anything from a grocer or a
professor to a football coach. He was not too precise or too
ready of speech in such a way as to spoil his pleasantly tweedy
blur of countenance and outline. He went from palace to log
cabin, from wealth to the White House, in a pattern of TV
reversal and upset.