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...Gingrich's top advisors, Frank Luntz, encourages Republicans to agree to perform the inherently contradictory wishes of the electorate--cutting spending, cutting taxes, increasing military spending and balancing the budget. The Contract is cloaked in Orwellian language ("The Taking Back Our Streets Act," "The American Dream Restoration Act") that demonstrates the GOP's reliance on demagoguery and simplistic propaganda techniques...
...whom there are almost none. He also promised to release U.N. hostages, permit free movement of U.N. convoys and reopen Sarajevo airport (two U.N. planes landed on Saturday); in other words, undoing actions already deemed illegal by U.N. resolutions. Finally, he pledged to "guarantee human rights," a declaration of Orwellian hypocrisy from a man instrumental in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Bosnians...
World Wide Web die-hard surfers -- many of whom tend to be privacy-rights absolutists -- have been horrified to learn that thesoftware that guides them through the Internetcould pose huge Orwellian problems. Over the last week or so, a growing number of heads-up E-mail dispatches have warned that some "browsers," including free and commercial copycats of the popular Mosaic program, quietly supply the Internet E-mail addresses of Net site visitors. These lists, critics argue, could soon be sold to the highest bidder --or even to government snoopers. "You'll go into a bulletin board that...
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...
Well, it turns out everything didn't go exactly according to plan. Despite the chain-link fence surrounding the 840-acre site, despite the 550 state troopers, the metal detectors, the confiscation of drugs and alcohol and the roaming private security force with the Orwellian name "Peace Patrol," a bit of the anarchy of the original Woodstock crept into its successor 25 years later. Several hundred people crashed the gates. The transportation system broke down early on, stranding huge numbers of fans and making the roads impassable. The audience pitched tents all over the grounds, despite pleas from the stage...