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The writer Bill McKibben begins his meditation on television and nature, The Age of Missing Information , by describing a duck gliding around a pond, contrasting a morning spent watching its languorous motion with the rat-tat-tat of images and data on more than 100 cable TV channels--images that, he argues, carry far less information about the way the world works than the back-and-forth of that lone quacker.
It's even closer to a Jacobean drama of our own age: The Godfather (1972), which it emulates by cutting back-and-forth between queen and courtiers in prayer and the roundup and slaughter of Catholics on their privies, in bed with their mistresses, and so on.
There is the usual back-and-forth about whether the injuries were the fault of the riders or the amusement parks.
Sitting inches apart on Meet the Press , Bill Bradley and Al Gore carry on the most spirited back-and-forth of the presidential campaign.
But following the story's back-and-forth arc can induce such a maddening case of whiplash that it's been hard to find the proper moment to pause and reflect.