Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Braderman views the media as an almost monstrous Orwellian creation--we don't just watch television, it also watches and speaks to us. Calling television the "tiny surveillance center in your home," Braderman insists that TV mandates: "Buy this, don't buy that, don't be fat, identify with my beauty, my wealth, my thighs...
...next seven years to keep the deficit from exploding. And the measures that Gingrich mentions are not cuts, but reprises of Ronald Reagan's old promise to balance the budget by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse -- a place where no one ever found enough fat...
...Fat True Books: These books are almost always biographies. They are at least 650 pages long, with a minimum of 100 pages of end-notes. The author has spent a minimum of 12 years in the archives researching his subject. Fat True Books can be about political types (Henry Kissinger, Chairman Mao) or artistic types (Mark Rothko, Marlon Brando). They need not be about anyone you've ever heard...
These books are not meant to be read so much as cited. Sometimes there is a CD-ROM version of the Fat True Book in which you can see, in three sparkling dimensions, the kindergarten classroom where the hero of the biography first learned how to double-knot her shoelaces...
There's a lot of fun to be had with this system. Try, for instance, to pigeon-hole the Bible. Is it a Fat True Book or Multi-Culti? And if it is Multi-Culti, then is it of the World Literature variety or the conservative reactionary? How about The Bell Curve? Ah, the joy of reading...