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Television Is Watching You

James Wolcott, Hit Parader, May 1977

ON THE albino-white walls of my apartment I've tacked up some CBGB mementoes: a photograph of Jonathan Richman ducking a flying bottle, a small Talking Heads poster, a picture of Patti Smith in a virginal white dress and anklet socks, and a xerox of a Patti Smith/Television poster, in which Patti looks... um, abused... like a battered runaway in an Odyssey House ad, and Television.

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