Word: movingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The book, however, quickly loses both its focus and its credibility when Fallows starts writing about himself. Fallows, a former Crimson editor and the Washington editor of The Atlantic Monthly, is an interesting person. The stories he tells about his parents moving to California when he was a child would...
The ultimate instrument for forgetting is television. It is inherent in the medium. The flickering image is impossible to retain. Who remembers the once ubiquitous Mike Douglas? Frank Reynolds? Michael Dukakis? Pastlessness is inherent in video, with its fast cuts and dissolving shots and rerecord button, with its moving tape...
The Korsakoffian, moreover, has trouble functioning. He is always getting things wrong. As modern industrial culture becomes more visual, its images more transient, it has a hard time learning. It too is constantly surprised. Take the shock with which news of the Chinese crackdown on the democracy movement was received...
Hold on to your joysticks, everyone. Video-game nostalgia has arrived. Never mind that the genre is less than two decades old. The first coin- operated video game -- a rather drab, black-and-white job called Computer Space -- was introduced in 1971, to a notably tepid reception. Since then, arcades...
Elections for the Strasbourg-based assembly, once consigned to the status of a European debating society, are fast becoming a bellwether for European politics. Thatcher aides sought to downplay the Tory defeat by arguing that the culprit was domestic discontent with Britain's 15% interest rates and 8.3% inflation. Even...