Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.