If English is spoken in heaven ... God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probab...ly use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fat...hering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of i...ndustry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While enclosed shopping malls suspended space, time, and weather, Disneyland went one step further and suspended reality. Any geog...raphic, cultural, or mythical location, whether supplied by fictional texts (Tom Sawyer's Island), historical locations (New Orleans Square), or futuristic projections (Space Mountain), could be reconfigured as a setting for entertainment. Shopping malls easily adapted this appropriation of "place" in the creation of a specialized theme environment. In Scottsdale, the Borgata, an open-air shopping mall set down in the flat Arizona desert, reinterprets the medieval Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano with piazza and scaled-down towers (made of real Italian bricks).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television and Disneyland operate similarly, by means of extraction, reduction, and recombination, to create an entirely new, anti...geographical space. On TV, the endlessly bizarre juxtapositions of the daily broadcast schedule continuously erode traditional strategies of coherence. The quintessential experience of television, that continuous program-hopping zap from the remote control, creates path after unique path through the infinity of televised space. Likewise, Disneyland, with its channel-turning mingle of history and fantasy, reality and simulation, invents a way of encountering the physical world that increasingly characterizes daily life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world... exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are be...coming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »