In "the rise of the image the fall of the word", Stephens describes how pictures, symbols and photos are replacing words as our primary communication medium.

The pictures of Outbeyond irised out, replaced by the starship logo.

A picture of the object replaced the Preacher.

He drove back the slack-faced, gray-skinned reality, fighting it like some living enemy, and a new picture replaced it.

A picture of the cloud replaced the two men.

In their wallets, pictures of balloons replace photographs of wives and husbands.

While no official notice from the band has yet been found about this change, Munteanu's name and picture have replaced Johnstone's on the band's website.

With the new talking pictures replacing silent films as a national pastime, outdoor Westerns fell out of favor briefly.

But this rosy picture simply replaces race consciousness in admissions with the race consciousness of segregation.

The sugar level can induce diabetic coma, and the late "serious" pictures replace the sugar with cod-liver oil.