Quotes About Spectacle

Are the mass media on the side of the power in the manipulation of the masses, or are they on the side of the masses in the liquidation of meaning, in the violence perpetrated on meaning, and in fascination? Is it the media that induce fascination in the masses, or is it the masses who direct the media into the spectacle?

Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theater, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication. We no longer partake of the drama of alienation, but are in the ecstasy of communication.

People think they come together in the spectacle, and it is here that they are isolated.

Just look at it!

The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights boldly growing in the cold night, the only lights for miles around in the inmense darkness of the range.

No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

For me, as much fun as it is to watch wrestling is, actually wrestling is what struck a chord with me.

When I would play in big games at Ohio State, if the Goodyear Blimp was there, you knew it was a big-time game against a big-time opponent.

There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.

I don't enjoy doing over-the-top action entertainers.

There is always over-the-top drama in television.

Consul Ballobar, who considered the bishop antisemitic, teased him for having attended and wrote in his diary that the mufti hadn't managed to hide his true feelings about the whole thing—his face was as yellow as a rotten melon. In Ballobar's opinion, the ceremony was an unnecessary and harmful political spectacle—he was not fond of Weizmann.

I set myself on fire, and the people come to see me burn.

PRIOR (An awestruck whisper): God almighty. Very Steven Spielberg.

And then I think, maybe that's what we are. An accidental spectacle.

when dinner was over he suggested that they should take their coffee on to the forecastle to look at the spectacle. Killick could not actually forbid the move, but with a pinched and shrewish look he poured the guests' coffee into villainous little tin mugs: he knew what they were capable of, if entrusted with porcelain, and he was quite right - each mug was dented when it came back, and the captain of the head had to deplore a trail of dark brown drops the whole length of his snowy deck.

He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!

Your apocalypse was fab.

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life's experience.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally.

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

A politician and his entourage on the campaign trail were like a herd of elephants: they could travel nowhere lightly. They stomped the earth until it hurt with the weight of the guards, chiefs of staff, spokespersons, speechwriters, publicity folks, gofers and others. It was a spectacle that if it didn't make you laugh would at least cause you considerable worry about the future of the country.

I'm not a big fan of football. Gladiators of the twenty-first century, wrecking each other for our amusement while we drink beer and eat hot dogs and cheer when a guy gets wiped out. You'd think we would have gotten beyond that. I guess there's too much money in it.