Word: orwellianisms
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...fact, the film even takes a stab at Orwellian allegory to appeal to mature viewers, presenting scrap metal plants resembling hell, eugenic overtones of destroying the “rusty” robots, and depictions of corporate greed. However, there’s nothing morally provocative or intellectual about the film; it’s just uninteresting to adults and frightening to children. And once one of those emotionally unstable midgets start crying, they...
...Orwellian revisionist stance has broader implications than what it might mean for the minute differences in the perceptions of Ivy League institutions, however. Wikipedia is like a microcosm for the world wide web: a massive collection of informative pages temptingly authoritative in form but perhaps nonetheless deceptive on the back end. And so we’re forced to ask ourselves, to what extent can we rely on this great resource...
...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...