magic box

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Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Television.1963,Scholastic Voice, volume34, page14:The viewer sits in front of the "magic box," being entertained.2009, Marianne van den Boomen,Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology, page174:A television program is a magic act.[…]It was his [Walter Cronkite's] ability to appear in themagic boxthat gave him the tremendous authority necessary to lay claim to the absolute truth.

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