With ceiling-to-floor slide projections and glossy press packets, the Pentagon described for reporters today how a mock warhead would thunder aloft on Friday night and a $30 million rocket would try to destroy it in a high-altitude collision.
Not so long ago, the stereotype of corporate directors as gray-haired executives sitting around a glossy mahogany table, listening to the chief financial officer ramble on about profit projections and anticipating a round of golf followed by a Scotch and soda, was not far off the mark.
From a pop-psych perspective, this macabre obsession reads as a projection of the collective anxiety we're dealing with, given a glossy sheen to make it less scary.
To deflect such perceptions, Mr. Gore included in his glossy, 191-page plan a pledge to set aside $300 billion as a hedge against overly optimistic fiscal projections.
This immediate projection of who should be wearing and buying the clothes automatically informs the way glossy magazines appropriate them.
