Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wegman's blackout skits on video were followed in the '70s by cartoonish drawings and whimsies staged for the camera. Like the big, vaporous paintings he started showing in 1987, they have their moments of Thurberesque charm, but it's only the loopy dog pictures that click. Situated somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's cunning art pranks and David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks, they rib Conceptualism even as they lay out its possibilities. But in the end their effectiveness rests upon powers of portrait psychology that owe little to Conceptualist mind games...
...news about the war was carefully managed in a variety of ways. By herding reporters into pools, subjecting their stories to censorship and imposing other restrictions like the total news blackout at the start of the ground war, the Pentagon claimed it was making sure no confidential military information was revealed. The restrictions, however, gave the military a major say in where journalists could go and what they could report. A ban on showing pictures of coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base, for example, was aimed at softening the coverage of U.S. casualties...
Despite the news blackout, sources told The Crimson this week that the committee had arrived at a short list of candidates with three highly-regarded individuals at the top of the list...
...unnerving that we know so little about the realities of this war. The partial news blackout, stage-managed by the U.S. military, seems a never-again overreaction to Vietnam. The longer the nation is safeguarded from the full truth, the more jarring will be the recoil when the inevitable bad news hits. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney warned, "A military operation of this intensity and complexity cannot be scored every evening like a college track meet or a basketball game." What other choice do we have but to tot up the bombing sorties, mourn the downed flyers and pray...
...solid citizens -- become dangerous aliens. Their cars fly across the median in the middle of the night. The high began as a creamy indulgence and ends as a squalid necessity, a fix. The soul begins to die. It passes over into realms of the surreal and savage, into moral blackout and passivity...