The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across ...the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century--sex and paranoia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift... to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being... found worthy to preside over them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside in... the White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the... audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »