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| September 01, 2005 | Bowman, James | COPYRIGHT 2005 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Almost every morning as I am shaving, I hear a radio commercial of the sort that produces in me what I call the Dan Rather effect--that is, the urge to talk back to electronic boxes. The message is on behalf of a jewelers' establishment called Charleston Alexander in Washington, D.C., and it begins with the following boast: "We hold two titles in this town: first, more diamonds in one place than any one place in Washington and, second, price." After a certain amount of by no means conclusive elaboration on the ambiguity of the second "title," the ad continues: "And if there was a third title, for loving diamonds, we'd hold that too." This absurd hypothetical is what ...

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