Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Africa. He dropped in on Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who promised $1 billion in support of minority business ventures in this country. Whether Gaddafi would make good was a moot point: U.S. sanctions against Libya blocked acceptance. Last year PATTY STONESIFER directed Microsoft's move from software into "content," meaning movie-quality games, online publications like Slate and news services like msnbc, a step that will change the shape of news and entertainment. In December she left in a company-wide shake-up. People who think Microsoft is a teenage boy's tree house say she was shaken...
Item one runs, "The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States." The sentiment is thick here, but the content is unlikely. What is intended by "belong?" Are we to really believe that the all the people of the United States own the arts and the humanities in any real sense? Ownership of such goods is the result--as we students know--of hard work and study, not of abstract right. Item four is similarly insufficient: "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education...
...television ratings system, it seems that their best chance may lie in subliminal communication, because the system itself isn't all that helpful. The 30-second flash of alphabet soup in the corner of my eye does not indicate in any degree of detail what type of inappropriate content I am about to see on my screen. Instead, all I am provided is one of six different ratings, reminiscent of the movie-rating system, that offers a rough estimate of the level of violence, sex and bad language contained in the program. However, this system does not assist the parent...
...exists is too simple--mixing in sex, blood and curses in one ultimate rating of age-appropriateness does not provide the discriminating viewer with very much information. Even a survey released by the media studies center reports that 79 percent of parents want a system that specifies the objectionable content rather than a general age rating...
...that literary fiction of the past two decades, good at dramatizing personal crises, has rarely attempted to engage the tumult of the wider world. Social disorder is handled more efficiently in nonfiction, journalism or seductively moving images. Who needs to plow through an imaginative verbal construct when the content is available in more accessible forms...