Television has become the realm of horrors?
The result was that by the millennium it had become the realm of huge multinational corporations and sponsorship deals.
The comfy backyard, once a sunny symbol of the American dream achieved, has become the realm of nightmares from which it is impossible to awaken.
From the unserious land of samba, slums, soccer and smoking rain forests, it has become the realm of ahead-of-the-curve ethanol production, flex-fuel cars running on any combination of ethanol and gasoline, and a biofuel revolution that could deliver the world from $100-a-barrel 100-a-barrel 100-a-barrel oil
Set in the fictional Green Town, Illinois (a reimagined Waukegan), during the long hot summer of 1928, it concerns minor domestic incidents which are made over in the feverish mind of a 12-year-old boy so that the town seems to become a realm of time-travellers and witches, of enchanted tennis shoes and impossible "happiness machines".
The Sea became the realm of Poseidon, the Sky (or Heavens) of Zeus, and the Underworld fell to Hades.
Through Perry's eyes, his part of the capital becomes a realm of terrifying newspaper headlines beside streets littered with discarded mattresses, where the scout headquarters looks on the point of collapse and only the estate agents flourish.
As public space becomes "public realm", owned and controlled by private interests, political promises evaporate into opaque clouds of backdoor deals that see flexible spaces such as Warren Farm transitioning into regulated spaces controlled by private interests – green in colour but not in character.
I suppose jazz long ago became the realm of the wealthy and obsessive aficionados.
The fear among net neutrality supporters is that absent strong regulations requiring service providers to treat all traffic equally, the Internet eventually becomes a realm of digital haves and have-nots.
