Word: simulacrums
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...Satirical websites theonion.com and modernhumorist.com interrupted publication. A five-hour Law & Order mini-series on NBC was scuttled because it involved an anthrax-attack plot in New York City. Microsoft indefinitely put off the next version of its popular Flight Simulator because it includes the Twin Towers in its simulacrum of New York City. Terror-themed movies were shelved by studios and pulled from cable. A Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins was spiked for this season. Even advertisers yanked spots--including a Geico insurance ad with a piggy bank falling from the sky--and began questioning whether...
...Monica, initially spooked by this shiny-faced, irrevocably pleasant simulacrum of a boy, comes to appreciate David's virtues; he has no flaws, except that he is not "orga" (organic) but "mecha" (mechanical)--and not Martin. From a closet she retrieves an old supertoy, a stuffed bear named Teddy, who becomes David's most faithful companion. Soon David is calling her Mommy. Bereft of her only natural child, she cradles this artificial one. Bathed in Nativity light, mother and child melt into a Pieta...
...optimistic view of what constitutes “living space.” Come by my room, Larry—it’s Eliot K-31. I’ll show you the partition that my roommates and I had to build to give us even a simulacrum of privacy. Students all over the River Houses—and even a few Quaddies, I hear—have to build these things to avoid driving our roommates insane. And then I walk through the vast open spaces of the Radcliffe Institute, and I can’t help...
...situation is an intriguing one rendered all the more so by Brown's skillful and sympathetic handling of her two central characters. Miriam is well meaning almost to a fault; her idealism sometimes shades into a simulacrum of selfishness, an unwillingness to credit other people with feelings as pure as her own. And Ronnee, who imagines herself a cool, calculating gold digger, is actually a vulnerable young woman burdened by society with conflicting identities. "Yeah, I know," she says at one point. "Nothing is black and white. Except me. I'm black and white...
...Vegas is Disney World up 30 notches times 30 hotels. It's the ultimate postmodern landscape--a dizzying simulacrum of our collective consciousness. In other words, it is pop culture. Just take a virtual journey down the Strip--the pirate-themed Treasure Island, the luxurious tropical visions at the Mirage, the canals (with gondola rides!) and warm cannolis at The Venetian, the Arthurian legend at Excalibur, the cobblestone streets surrounding Lake Como at the $1.3 billion Bellagio, etc. etc. Where else in the world can you wake up and look out one window and see the Eiffel Tower (a half...