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of an earlier time
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These videos may be relics of an earlier time, one where dangerous corporate propaganda expressed itself through cringeworthy rapping, but they’re also astonishing, once hidden windows into the fast-food id: the goal to impress upon employees that if something goes wrong, it’s because they didn’t do everything right and it’ll be all their fault.
But Nolan says his goal was to ensure accuracy without the 100-million-dollar film feeling like a caricature of an earlier time.
It was a shocking statement harking back to the casual bigotry of an earlier time — and foretelling the resurgence of a similar brand of malevolence toward minorities and the disadvantaged that reemerged during the Trump presidency.
The whole thing carries an air of nostalgia, he writes, adding, “Even the anticipation of seeing something genuinely new at the multiplex feels like an artifact of an earlier time, before streaming and the Marvel Universe took over.”
The whole thing carries an air of nostalgia, he writes: “Even the anticipation of seeing something genuinely new at the multiplex feels like an artifact of an earlier time, before streaming and the Marvel Universe took over.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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