Word: virtualization
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...subject for whom the Sultan provided a higher education was his son Qabus, whom he sent to Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy. Many Britons hoped that the Sultan would retire in favor of his son, but Said showed no such inclination. Once back home Qabus found himself under virtual palace arrest at Salala; he was forbidden to marry or even to receive guests without his father's permission...
...Summer Festival Orchestra, like its counterpart, the Boston Philharmonic, fills a great gap in the cultural life of Boston. This city has been forced for so much too long to tolerate a rapidly deteriorating orchestra with a virtual monopoly on the city's cultural life. The presence of visible competition can only be a benefit to the city, and might even force the Boston Symphony to improve...
Shot mainly through the revolutionary's individual perspective, the film rarely exposes more than a minimal depth of detail about anything. Williams objectifies the complete one-sideness and distortion of the bourgeois media by excluding them almost totally from the film, portraying a virtual knowledge-vacuum through the anaesthetic quietude, the dull-colored monotones, and the looming stillness constantly before the camera. Society he presents as a Kafkaesque, corrupt, and abstract unknown, which represses with perfect, restrained expediency and provides nothing concrete for the opposition to attack. The issues are vague and predictable for a post-industrial giant-war, imperialism...
...phalli. There is John Huston, demeaning himself as the slob-gutted, sagebrush sybarite. There is Rex Reed, whose debut as an actor is on a par with the best line the scriptwriter could give him to scream: "Where are my tits?" There is Raquel herself, who wanders about in virtual unemployment, spouting pendulous philosophy á la Vidal and a lot of pointlessly dirty words. She struggles desperately to parody herself but only sinks deeper and deeper into the bog around...
...black movement illustrates the unstable leadership which results from its haphazard process of virtual representation. For better or worse, community control has come to mean internecine warfare. Walzer clearly believes in black solidarity and worker solidarity, at least as some transcendent precipitant of social division, but he indicates how hard it is to represent this solidarity through legitimate, democratic process...