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...videos. "The visual image will be familiar, more communicative to people. But at the same time, there will be a general humiliation of language," says Neil Postman, chairman of New York University's communications department. Our connection with the real world may grow ever more tenuous as images increasingly supplant words and symbolic gestures overwhelm rational argument. The portent is ominous: How can an electorate conditioned by MTV ever have the patience to solve the budget deficit...
...phrase the "Critical Period" to describe the era of political and economic turbulence that characterized the individual states between the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 and the ratification of the Constitution in 1788. And while historians continue to debate just how critical it was for Americans to supplant the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution, there can be no doubt that South Africa, a country struggling to write a new constitution, now faces its own critical period...
...status quo is not an option for them. In post-Revolutionary America, many people were satisfied with the loose federal system of the Articles of Confederation, and the great source of political tension was the struggle between those who sought to maintain the Articles and those who hoped to supplant them with a more centralized system...
...deejay gigs led to another career move that, some have since suggested, should supplant his rapping. He was offered a small part in the dance movie Breakin' in 1984. "They said they'd pay me $500 a day. S---, I was spending that on sneakers," he laughs. But his street boys, according to Ice-T, wouldn't let him turn down the part. A few of the gang had already been taken down by the police or other gangs. "You got a chance," Ice-T recalls them saying. "White people like you, man. They've got their hand...
...toward one giant free-trade zone. If GATT survives, the odds are better that regionalism will give way to transregionalism, just as nationalism has already given way to transnationalism in Western Europe. If, however, GATT dies, the opposite could happen: the temptation to form regional clubs could, over time, supplant and undermine global cohesion. Europe, North America and East Asia may evolve into three internally open but externally closed trading blocs...