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14 Daily Nobraskan Monday, April 25,1933 i V. .11 V v 1 L. 1 0 r Staff photos by Craig Andruen Tim Roper of Hit N' Run INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS You may have friends or relatives interested. in the inteive FnHHi bv.r-r m?r?m of The Midwest Institute for International Studies at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. Year-round courses in intensive English. 25 miles from Lincoln in the Doane College campus. Classes begin every month. Reasonable costs. Applications arid further information available by writing: THE MIDWEST INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Doane College Crete, Nebraska 68333 or telephone: 402-826-5174 Despite cloudy skies, a sizeable crowd took in an afternoon of outdoor entertainment at Cornstock XIII Friday. Music was pro vided by the Star City Flayers, Hit N' Run and Sneak Preview. - en" " -V 1 up Drummer Ron City Players Jester of the Star " V Kris Keim, left, a junior human development and special education major, and Candy Samek, a junior language arts major, share a little liquid refreshment at Cornstock. 9 or m y Pick your favorite Designer Frame and purchase complete pair of lenses and frames for only $59 5, regularly $65-$130. Purchase a complete pair of single vision lenses, and frame, any prescription, glass or plastic for $59.95 Multifocals, photochromatics, over size, and tint, slight additional charge. WE HAVE THE FRAME YOU WANT FOR THE LENSES YOU NEED. Jordache Mary McFadden Zsa Zsa Gabor Oleg Cassini Anthony Martin Arnold Palmer Boutique frames excluded. Please no special order frames 333 N. 12th Mon.-Fri. 10-5 Thurs. till 8 Sat. 10-1 T he Opl ical Shoo MasterCard OFFER EXPIRES 43083 SAVE 0oo i i r-s rrv'iNM EDIUr.l CHEESE PIZZA u Si u - Additional Morns G50 oa. 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One of the more revealing statistics about us, for example, is that TV Guide is our best-selling magazine. This is true despite the fact that the daily newspapers run the complete television listings and a large number of local television markets have their own publications about television, such as Lincoln's TV Week. Obviously, people must be doing with TV Guide what they say they are doing with Playboy -reading the articles. With such a large and hungry market for stories about television, the hack in search of the monthly rent might be able to make a go of it as a television critic. There are not sure bets, of course, but if ever there was a band wagon on wluch to jump, it is the streamlined screamer Television that drives nonstop into the heart of "Prime Time," where the television critic holds court. Anybody can do it. Hell, anybody does do it. All you have to remember are a few simple rules : 1. YOU DONT LIKE IT. If it was really good, it wouldn't be a television show. If you can only remember one tiling about being a television critic, make this be the one, as it sets up the snob appeal that a critic absolutely has to have in television. Film critics can love films, and convey that love in print; theatre and art critics can even afford to be condescending and downright chatty in efforts to bring their highbrow art forms to the Great Unwashed. A tradition that may have been established by Cleveland Amory at TV Guide, however, dictates that the television critic has to pretend like he or she was all but forced at gunpoint to sit and watch television. 2. THE MORE OBSCURE SHOW IS, THE BETTER SHOW. While no television show is great (see 1), the worst shows are the ones that draw the highest ratings. CBS' "Sixty Minutes" is the exception that proves the rule here, but for the most part critics like a television offering in inverse proportion to its Nielsen rating. If nobody out there is watching a show, it is safe for you to praise it without smudging your snob reputation. The ultimate in safety is to praise shows that have already been taken off the air. As a corollary, the critic assumes television is constant ly getting worse. His or her favorite shows all come from what has been called "The Golden Age of Television" and are no longer available to the American public because an unfortunate fire destroyed the only prints of them in 1956. 3. NEVER BE CONCISE WHEN YOU CAN BE VERBOSE. It's never enough to say that the script was bad, the acting terrible and the filming atrocious. Any body can say a script is bad - only you, the television critic can say "the script lacked the elements necessary for the production of a continuously interesting and engaging piece of quality programming." It's no more informative, and it's about 15 extra words. If you are feeling cocky about your ability to produce this fog or (dream-of-dreams) you have some basis in the actual show to back you you can even go into specifics, like the always safe The script did not allow for character development; the (character's name) we see at the end is not perceptibly different from the (name again) we see at the beginning, despite all that has happened in the course of the show." There's more to it than this, of course, but what r? mlre .reft"emcnts of d variations on this modest list of basics. But if you are going to eet h the ground floor of this little sea m,8 may l ave to settle for a degree of on-the-job training, because the day is not far away when the vidiots of the wor d dis- about TsoZ TlU,d rat,hef r Ch "Sre about it. So, in the grand tradition of television vou'd better get m quick and take them for all you can ) American Heart Association WE'RE FIGHTING fORVOl lf? LIFE