Eighty-Four

Orwell would be the obvious example, from the not-so-subtle critique of the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm to the anti-authoritarian Nineteen Eighty-Four, a book whose message has been appropriated by all sides of the political spectrum.

Political writing « Write Anything 2010

High school student Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon for deleting his Kindle copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four, because in so doing, they messed the annotations he'd created to the text for class (the annotations say things like "remember this paragraph for class" but the paragraph in question has been deleted).

Boing Boing 2009

Before that, Deakins cut his teeth on documentaries and British films such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Sid and Nancy, but Hollywood is where he built his formidable reputation.

Oscars 2011: Will the Brits win big in the technical categories? 2011

Change a syllable and Bernstein would be Goldstein, the target of the daily "Two Minutes Hate" Big Brother demands party members direct at the traitor who threatens the dictatorship in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A horrible own goal for Sepp Blatter and Fifa | Nick Cohen 2011

In "Nineteen Eighty-Four," George Orwell wrote about the Memory Hole, the place where unpleasant facts go to die.

No more 'spiking' and 'killing' in our kinder, gentler newsroom John Kelly 2010

MICHELE KELEMEN: Eighty-Four F-15 fighter jets, 70 Apache attack helicopters, and 72 Black Hawks.

U.S. Announces $60 Billion Arms Sale To Saudis 2010

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Rings, Paddington Bear or The Clangers, they all have to follow their own logic and it is this that makes them believable and interesting.

Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just 2010

In George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, the fundamental basis for the totalitarian state that he portrays is the fear and hatred of the foreign enemy, Oceania.

Alan Grayson: The End of Fear? Alan Grayson 2011

MICHELE KELEMEN: Eighty-Four F-15 fighter jets, 70 Apache attack helicopters, and 72 Black Hawks.

U.S. Announces $60 Billion Arms Sale To Saudis 2010

In "Nineteen Eighty-Four," George Orwell wrote about the Memory Hole, the place where unpleasant facts go to die.

No more 'spiking' and 'killing': A kinder, gentler computer system John Kelly 2010