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...hope. Last Friday evening, eternity was writ large in Sydney's Olympic Stadium at the climax of the Opening Ceremony's hourlong Australian cultural showcase. As tap dancers gave way to 13-year-old Nikki Webster and Djakapurra Munyarryun being levitated together toward the heavens, fireworks erupted across a screen in the shape of the Harbour Bridge, with Stace's copperplate script emblazoned...
...personality, someone who would make the broadcasts interesting and hopefully controversial. In other words, he was looking for another Howard Cosell. Cosell, the biggest catch of Ohlmeyer's life, was so polarizing that "people would buy television sets just to throw bricks at him when he came on screen...
...Lewinsky scandal. The problem was that the interview was from 1994, not 1998, long before anyone had ever heard of the White House intern. But the ad tested so well with focus groups that, according to two officials, the campaign is thinking of just putting some dates on the screen so that no one can accuse the G.O.P. of misleading voters, and running it in battleground states anyway. But a top aide to Bush insisted to TIME that the rumors of its resurrection are "not true...
...with artificial intelligence, M.I.T. professor Sherry Turkle was asking what the tech revolution meant for the people caught up in it. In her book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, she explored such questions as whether hackers were victims of stunted emotional development. In Life on the Screen, she pondered whether a sexual assault of one player by another in an online game is in any way a "real" rape...
...there were any controlling grown-up authority on the National Desk, any intelligent superego left to say, "Spike it, it's a phony" - worked themselves into a state about the idea that the Bush people had commissioned a campaign ad containing the word "RATS," subliminally flashed on the screen in the midst of a discussion of "bureaucRATS" or? "DemocRATS."? The diabolical idea (a brainwashing trick that the GOP's mind-control people picked up from the Commie Reds north of the Yalu) was to have this message, "RATS", flash subliminally in the mind of the late Lawrence Harvey and persuade...