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Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.
Frederic Raphael
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Frederic Raphael
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 14
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Frederic Michael Raphael
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