Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single hit can top $500 million. Last week players from Times Square to Paris to Tokyo queued up in stores to buy Mortal Kombat, one of the hottest (and most violent) games ever made. In the next few weeks, Disney/MGM will release the game version of Aladdin; Propaganda Films will debut Voyeur, a new kind of adult-oriented interactive movie; and a start-up company named 3DO will launch the riskiest merger of games and multimedia yet, with a $699 superpowered machine designed to blast the market into new levels of graphic reality and financial risk...
...make Voyeur, Propaganda Films shot live actors in an empty room and then combined their digitized images with computer-generated sets -- beds, desks, windows. To make Switch, an interactive motion picture to be released next year, director Mary Lambert rented Sound Stage 5 at the Hollywood Center Studios. Watching a scene in which actress Deborah Harry, dressed in a skintight dress with a plunging neckline, strides into a chamber decorated with ancient Egyptian props is like stepping back into the studios of the 1930s...
Like most official records, glyphs undoubtedly contain a healthy dose of propaganda. Imagine, argues Richard Leventhal, director of UCLA's Institute of Archaeology, that you tried to understand the Gulf War by reading Saddam Hussein's pronouncements. Says Arlen Chase: "You get this real warped view of what Maya politics and Classic society look like if you just use epigraphy. It's important, but archaeology is the only way to test it." Observes Houston: "Of course it's propaganda, but to jump from that to a blanket dismissal is preposterous...
...control, because the Democrats are bad. Perhaps they are; but what would make Republicans govern better? That question is never answered. The message is that the Republicans want control; they'll figure out what to do with the power after they get their hands on it. Today's Republican propaganda, no matter how justified, still doesn't deviate from the standard image of Republican propaganda--and it's that standard image that has to change...
...years since the Gulf War, American policy toward Iraq has been ineffective," notes a European diplomat. "They were aiming to get Saddam Hussein out of power. They have not. They wanted to compensate Kuwait and finance U.N. operations through oil sales; they have not. Furthermore, American propaganda has failed to convince the Iraqi people that the sanctions are the fault of their own government...