The wishful thinking moves the merchandise, accounts not only for high-end appearance fees ($3 million to Mariah Carey to attend a party; $15,000 for five minutes in the presence of Donald Trump), but also for the Wall Street market in nonexistent derivatives and the weapons of mass destruction gone missing in Iraq. The historical variables testify to the presence of the constant, which is the human hope or dream of immortality, but they don't account for the broad-spreading glory that disperses to nothing. Associate celebrity with the worship of graven images, and not only is it nothing new under the sun, it is the pretension to divinity that built the pyramids and destroyed both Sodom and Julius Caesar. The images of wealth and power demand nothing of their votaries other than the duty of ritual obeisance. The media affix price tags to carcasses of temporary divinity, but in return for the gifts of fame and riches, they require the king of the month or the queen for a day to make themselves available to the ritual for the public feast.

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Barack Obama in 2008 scored the apostolic music for gospel choir and guitar, but to notice that he failed to work the miracle of the loaves and fishes is to miss the point, like noticing that David Hasselhoff can neither sing nor dance. The son et lumieres presented by Louis XIV in the palace of Versailles and by Adolf Hitler in the stadium at Nuremberg prefigure the Colorado rock-star staging of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential nomination. Moreover, if you are using the above told suggested objects then you will have to make sure that they are used in a very creative and unique way otherwise your brand mark would be lost in so many look alike corporate identities. Every time recipients tee off with your branded Engraved Srixon golf balls, they're engaging with your brand in a positive and unobtrusive manner. From the drive off the tee to the holing of the final putt he was uniformly suave.

Then, in the 1970s, the cart received a final makeover, gaining stereoscopic vision from a swiveling television camera for obstacle avoidance. That achievement was reserved for the mechanical genius of the twentieth century that equipped the manufacturers of celebrity with the movie camera, the radio broadcast, the high-speed newspaper press, and the television screen. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion. There are companies offering the same product, same service and offerings at almost the same price. Four years later Ronald Reagan mounted a cowboy-hatted variant of the same message on a white horse. Such a society is the one that America has been attempting to make for itself since John F. Kennedy was king in Camelot, and the collective effort -- nearly 50 years of dancing with the stars under the disco balls in Hollywood, Washington, and Wall Street -- deserves an appreciation of the historical antecedents. His long years under Robold, his scientific imagination had given him comprehension.