Word: borderless
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...American in Venice cannot help feeling marginal, neither sharing in the borderless bounty of the E.C. nor joining the Japanese in their shopping-bag odyssey of the great boutiques of Europe. But then an Italian newsstand beckons -- and suddenly it's the American Century all over again. Who is that carefully coiffed blond woman staring intently from the cover of a glossy Italian magazine? A Roman film star? Princess Di? No, it's Hillary Clinton. Newspaper headlines in four languages refer familiarly to a global personality instantly recognizable as just plain "Bill...
America is in certain ways a country out of control: drugs, crime, what has become a morally borderless wandering. The two videos are a matched pair, complementary. They are choreographed like mtv, performed by Road Warriors. The Rodney King video shows cops in the stylized tribal rioting that men in groups on dangerous excursions sometimes use as a form of bonding -- solidarities of atrocity on the late shift. The truck-driver video looked like ritual sacrifice, the helicopter circling overhead, the rioters circling the trucker's flung body. Both videos recorded naked power dances, conscienceless, brainless, evil, pain inflicting...
...generation ago, social theorist Marshall McLuhan proclaimed the advent of a "global village," a sort of borderless world in which communications media would transcend the boundaries of nations. "Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness," he wrote. " 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in . . . a simultaneous happening." McLuhan underestimated the enduring appeal of the status quo and the stubborn persistence of the petty side of human nature. The fusion of television and satellites did not produce instantaneous brotherhood, just a slowly dawning awareness of the implications of a world transfixed by a single TV image...