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...Harvard's own was at the center of glitz and glamour Saturday night, when Elizabeth E. Hancock '00, Miss Massachusetts, competed in the 78th Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City...
That would have been perfectly understandable. In a way, all the principals in our latest scandal have spent a lot of time trying to improve the picture of themselves that's in the record. Monica Lewinsky subjected herself to glitz-porn on the beach in an effort to replace that awful shot of her in the beret. In hiring a spokesman, Kenneth Starr was hoping we'd forget that picture of him smiling insipidly in his driveway while holding a black plastic bag of garbage. The President hopes that pictures of him toasting world leaders will replace the picture...
...gets worse. Our children's attention spans are too short already, but the Web is a propaganda machine for short attention spans. The instant you get bored, click the mouse, and you're someplace else. Our children already prefer pictures to words, glitz to substance, fancy packaging to serious content. But the Web propagandizes relentlessly for glitz and pictures, for video and stylish packaging. And while it's full of first-rate information, it's also full of lies, garbage and pornography so revolting you can't even describe it. There is no quality control on the Internet...
Lacks the glitz and glamour of Java-enhanced pages, which some people prefer. volonnin.student.harvard.edu...
This page, too, lacks the glitz and glamour provided by Java scripting. The page is static, which means that people probably won't keep coming back if they don't have to. Dynamic and changing sites keep a browser's attention and patronage. www.fas.harvard.edu/~alississ...