Yes, there was barely TV let alone "reality TV" or CCTV.
Not that there ever was any credible pretense ― let alone reality ― of high-mindedness to all this, but what we are reduced to now is the grim nub of Trump: lawlessness, racism, authoritarianism, resentment, brutality, venality and a blind desire to dismantle everything in the way of the one thing he wants and understands ― his own survival.
He saysPolls show lots of things simultaneously, many of them incompatible with one another, let alone with reality.
Like thrill-seekers, dancers hunger for those moments when they're out there alone and reality dissolves around them.
But "A Baby Story" is virtually alone among reality series in the dignity it accords its subjects.
You see Colin Slade standing alone, in reality for at least another 36 hours and, who knows, maybe for the rest of his rugby life.
And for well over a century, Texas has held to a perspective on penology — an outlook devoid even of the goal, let alone the reality, of rehabilitation — that now dominates the nation.
He suggests that to understand what is happening we should individually "practise thinking like an ecosystem... " by "spending a day in the wilds – alone with reality, keeping quiet and letting things unfold".
This is an unrealistically purist view given that most people buy bigger wheels for the looks alone; the reality is that the heavier wheels plus heavier roof would tip the Prius into a higher weight category which would force it to be recertified at considerable expense.
If the World Shakespeare festival brings anything home, surely it will be that while we in Britain like to imagine Shakespeare is ours alone, the reality is that he has long since slipped over the border, evaded our grasp, moved on elsewhere, to many places at once.
I don't want to give too much away here, but there is a moment when the family seeks to explain a terrible thing they have just read; and what's sad, I think, is that they reach for clichéd explanations that don't necessarily reflect what they think, let alone the reality of the situation.
