4 “kick[ing] around phrases” – Steve Hayden, “ ‘1984’: As Good As It Gets”, Adweek, January 30, 2011.
5 “They said it would be irresponsible” – Adelia Cellini, “1984: 20 Years On”, Macworld, January 2004.
6 “people in bar rooms” and “No commercial” – Nancy Millman, “Apple ‘1984’ Spot: A Love/Hate Story”, Advertising Age, January 30, 1984.
7 “Will Big Blue dominate” – Isaacson, p. 169.
8 “a B-grade interpretation” – Millman.
9 “THERE IS ONLY ONE YEAR LEFT!” – Nat Hentoff, “The New Age of No Privacy”, Village Voice, February 1, 1983.
10 “casting its appraising eye” – Village Voice, February 1, 1983.
11 “almost as much impact” – Geoffrey Stokes, “The History of the Future”, Village Voice, February 1, 1983.
12 “Orwell’s decade” – Günter Grass, Headbirths, or The Germans Are Dying Out (Secker & Warburg, 1982), p. 67.
13 “If you don’t have an opinion” – Michael Robertson, “Orwell’s 1984 – Prophecy or Paranoia?”, San Francisco Chronicle, December 19, 1983.
14 “black plague” – Quoted in Leopold Labedz, “Will George Orwell Survive 1984?”, Encounter, June 1984.
15 “We can’t control everything.” – John Ezard, “Big Brother Looks Ready for Big Business in 1984”, Guardian, December 28, 1983.
16 “the Ministry of Nightlife” – The New Show (NBC, 1984).
17 “WAR IS PEACE” – Reprinted in Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation, p. 234.
18 TV Guide figured– TV Guide, January 18, 1984.
19 “Big Brother meets the band with the Big Balls” – Musician, March 1983.
20 “The Orwell/Animal Farms/1984” – Quoted in Ezard.
21 “Can we be allowed to forget” – James Cameron, “All Together Now”, Guard ian, January 3, 1984.
22 “a kind of Orwellian nightmare” – Spectator, January 7, 1984.
23 “the already hackneyed analogies” – Hansard, HC, January, 25, 1984, vol. 52, col. 1001.