Tuesday night's television spectacle was another taste of the absorbing public political debate introduced to Soviet viewers earlier this month during a national Communist Party conference.

The riddled bodies of this unloved couple made a grisly television spectacle.

Nevertheless, the event has become a television spectacle as well, watched by several hundred million people around the world.

The social voyeurs and movie stars, who made auctions into television spectacles five years ago, had vanished.

Those hearings, like the videotape of the Clinton testimony, were television spectacles.

Transition officials said the television spectacle presages a broad communications strategy for the Clinton Presidency that will use techniques pioneered during the campaign.

As a television spectacle, it's not bad.

Sports pages became dependent on the N.C.A.A.'s television spectacle to attract readers.

Furthermore, they are broadcast as television spectacles that interrupt the regular scheduled programming on a given television network.

But don't look to this week's television spectacle for signs of restraint.