Word: illusioners
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The Indians," says a character in I Werner Herzog's epic movie Fitz-carraldo, "believe that the waking world is a fantasy from which we escape into our real life - our dream life." Herzog should know: he was one of 35,000 dreamers at the 35th Cannes Film Festival...
The metaphysics of travel has changed. Television turns us all into what the author Paul Fussell calls "stationary tourists," electronic cosmopolites. The webbing of satellites around the planet, the "remote feeds" from almost anywhere, give us the illusion that we are world travelers, or at least that we are all...
The Cultural Revolution, for example, has left rivers of apathy, indifference, and distrust of communism running through China. "Before the Cultural Revolution, we Chinese lived under a great illusion," one discontented daughter of intellectuals tells Butterfield. "We believed the Communists could save China and make it prosperous and strong again...
Why so obvious a fact was not seen before last week's events-before the destruction of two ships, at least nine aircraft and more than 300 people-was partly a matter of pacing. The three weeks it took for Britain's fleet to reach the islands was...
The fourth episode of Viewpoint was broadcast last week from the University of Chicago, where 850 people watched Anchor Ted Koppel in the flesh and half a dozen of his colleagues on monitors. The subject: coverage of foreign affairs. Correspondent John Laurence opened on a skeptical note, calling network correspondents...