"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
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"Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater."
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"Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore."
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"One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath."
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"It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera."
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"Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability."
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"Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver?"
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"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed."
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