The culture industry, which supports them in one way or another, and which hardly existed a generation ago, subsists on all that money — mostly on the largesse and folly of wealthy art lovers, whether their motivations are lofty or base.
Goff is a forensic entomologist, and he tells the story of what exactly that means and of how his field (which hardly existed before 1980) came to take a respected place in death investigations.
"Media planning" companies, which hardly existed a few years ago, are springing up to advise advertisers on which lifestyle magazines have the most desirable readers, and which radio stations are considered cool by township youth.The new-found dynamism of South Africa's advertising industry is robbing the business of its independence.
Without having a major studio (which hardly exist in Europe, compared to the US) or larger production companies such as Constantin Film in Germany or Dor Film in Austria, on board, it's hard to gain access to high-quality content.
In between those totalitarian forms lies democracy, which can be either democratic socialism such as in northern Europe, or else democratic capitalism, which hardly even exists anymore.
Digital photography lacks the crisp elegance of film, but the slight blurriness works for a shacking-up movie in which the world hardly exists.
Word processing, a field in which jobs hardly existed five years ago, is the big news in office work these days.
He tells us: "Today the nation state hardly exists," which suggests he's not noticed the remarkable reassertion of state power in tackling the global economic crisis.
As for competitive balance, which the owners say hardly exists, the facts are from 1990 to 2001, to take the most recent period, 17 of the 30 teams have been in a League Championship Series or the World Series.
