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and chiefly U.S.,” but Australia had taken it up by 1968, and there was no more appropriate word at hand in 1982 when a journalist for England's Listener wrote, “Perhaps we have all been corrupted by the telethons of Vietnam television reporting.”
The picture reportedly ended with a shot of black smoke coming out of the stack--but we'll never know because The Day the Clown Cried was judged too obscene to be released, and Lewis went back to parading doomed kids across the TV screen in telethons, while Americans goggled at his stamina, and senators nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.