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"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last."
"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."
"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values."
"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
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