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...quizzically from in front of a wall and a little box of a house capped with an aerial. The rather casual shabbiness of "OK" is a shameless bit of pandering to the idea of Generation X; evidently we are so fed up with the kaleidescopic self-promotion and colorful hype of Pepsi and Coke that we are helplessly susceptible to the soft-pedal...
...trouble is that "None of your business" represents a kind of black- and-white retro-reality that won't play anymore. The nation lives in a pervasive culture of spin and hype, the agitated, drooling and unembarrassable twin children of publicity. Spin and hype, working mostly through the magic of television, create a sort of virtual reality in which no one is quite accountable and consequences can be annulled by changing the channel -- or adducing a childhood trauma. That powerful universe of sensational illusion has increasingly come to determine the moral atmosphere of America. The virtual world of trailer-park...
...young celebrities like Johnny Depp. MTV has not been overlooked -- Cash has made a video of Delia's Gone in which he stars with model Kate Moss, the barely 20- year-old waif goddess. Cash is even considering playing on the Lollapalooza alternative-music tour. Despite all the hype, Cash has remained remarkably serene and even seems a little oblivious to where the record company is sending him. In New York City he performed at an ultrahip club called Fez; Cash refers to the venue...
...writing to point out the amusing irony I discovered in Raymond Liu's editorial, "Info-Vasion" (March 21, 1994). Liu decries the "hype" that he believes characterizes the advent of new technologies, asserting that it "should not be...swallowed without thought." Yet lack of thought pervades his editorial. Liu wants us to wait until we have complete information about a plan before endorsing it; would that he had tried to gather more complete information before blindly flailing at systems like Clipper...
Issues such as the Clipper chip show that with all its attributes, the information highway still possesses many drawbacks. Who is willing to give up their privacy for new gadgets? The government has an obligation to retreat on its Clipper stance, while slowing down on its infoway hype blitz...