Word: orwellian
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...atmospheric games I've ever seen. Humanity came out of its interdimensional scrap holding the silver medal, and now we live in an alien-run police state enforced by collaborationist thugs and towering three-legged monstrosities. Long, ringing silences, too bright sunlight and empty streets deepen the sense of Orwellian despair...
...most influential person in this humming hive isn't a designer, fashion editor or It girl. It's Hiroshi Tsutsumi, director of tenant planning for the firm that owns 109. Don't let the Orwellian title fool you. It's up to Tsutsumi to decide which designers and companies get to set up shop at 109. That makes the unassuming Tsutsumi, 50, the queenmaker and ultimate power broker of Japan's teen-fashion universe. He helped oversee an overhaul a few years ago that transformed 109 from a conventional clothing mall into the highly concentrated--and profitable--teen wonderland...
...INTERVIEW WITH TIME, BUSH called the U.S. invasion of Iraq a "catastrophic success," which he defined as "being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day." For those who are unfamiliar with Orwellian Newspeak or doublespeak, catastrophic success translates as failure in plain English...
General Franks delivered an Orwellian tour de force. In a single short interview, he blamed the Iraqis for their country's electricity shortage, even though the U.S. created the situation; said he is "very thankful" that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), even though this was one of the main justifications for the war; implied that the mere possibility that Saddam Hussein might have acquired WMD was a sufficient reason to go to war, even though such a broad premise would warrant attacking many other nations; and claimed that Saddam's regime was working with al-Qaeda...
...General Franks delivered an Orwellian tour de force. In a single short interview, he blamed the Iraqis for their country's electricity shortage, even though the U.S. created the situation; said he is "very thankful" that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), even though this was one of the main justifications for the war; implied that the mere possibility that Saddam Hussein might have acquired WMD justified the war, even though such a broad premise would warrant attacking many other nations; and claimed without evidence that Saddam's regime was working with al-Qaeda, even though there...