Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chop, chop. Thwack. Zing. Chonk...
Fidel Castro: "The ground's a little wet today, eh?" Puff, puff. "I have a new cutting technique." Whack. Zing. Chonk. "First the lower part and then the upper part." Chop. Chonk...
...flooded with light," says Gyorgy Kepes, M.I.T.'s professor of visual design. "We switch light on and off, send it where we will, and when we will, negate it. We project, reflect, fix, focus, chop, diffuse and scatter it. Why, then, are we not struck by the realization that the palette of a stupendous new civic art has been put in our hands...
...Dads happily ogle a prepotent heman, king of a computerized wonderland in which every foe can be swiftly vanquished, every voluptuous siren bedded. And women seem quite susceptible to the fantasy of being vicariously mauled by a master of the art, perhaps after flooring him with a karate wrist chop. Slapdash, comic-strip plots, more violent than suspenseful, are made into a joke that viewers are invited to share while soaking up the sin and splendor of strange locales, gawking at new feats of technology. The sin is mechanical-a series of clashes between the hostile male and deadly female...
...frequent battle communique: "Initial contact was light." In order to engage the Viet Cong, Americans and South Vietnamese have stepped up their "search and clear" thrusts into Communist-held territory, using flame throwers, gas and explosives to flush the Viet Cong from their tunnels, leveling whole forest areas to chop snipers from the trees. Turning the tables, crack Marine sharpshooters are now carrying hunting rifles equipped with telescopic sights able to zero in on guerrillas from afar. B-52s have begun making tandem runs over Viet Cong tunnel areas, first with deep-penetration bombs that bore into the earth, then...