Iraq's occupation of Kuwait was extraordinarily brutal and was accompanied by mass looting of everything from planes to frozen lobsters taken from luxury hotels in Kuwait City.
Like Magritte's "Golconde," Warhol's "Cow Wallpaper," or corporate advertiser wildposting all over our cities, the repeated image evokes the impersonality of the mass production of everything, cheapening a life and lessening its importance.
To my mind, the thing that's exploding into relevance in our era is not mass culture but the critique of mass culture — the Barthesian dissection of everything, no matter how trivial.
At about 7 A.M., I stepped onto the henge and into a damp, milling mass of people dressed in everything from Druidic garb to sporty anoraks.
Hasn't he just made a bonfire of a mass of environmental regulations concerning everything from carbon dioxide emissions to arsenic in drinking water?In this section The kiss of life?
As Jürgen Klopp keeps on muttering, in those oddly lucid moments where he suddenly just seems like a normal person wandered into the middle of a peculiar kind of mass hysteria, not everything in life is about buying and spending.
Instead, he pulled the pin that kept the mast standing, and everything — a mass of steel, rope and canvas — came crashing down around us.
Problems with this disk-shaped mass of tissue can contribute to everything from preterm births to diseases of middle age.
If station cars become staples of mass transit, then everything changes again.
