Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nowhere in Hanson's work, once the first frisson of encounter has worn off - as, inevitably, it does - can one feel that an organizing, selective imagination has been intelligently brought to bear on its raw material. Instead we are offered a basic theatrical package, a quick jolt to the sense of reality which, unlike the pleasures of more organized or complex art, fails to renew itself. It all ends up as Norman Rockwell in 3-D and grimy jeans, minus the period optimism: not contemptible, but not the stuff of which anything but il lustration can be made . Robert...
Having dedicated much of his life to perfecting his basketball skills, learning that he would not be able to play again this year came as a monumental jolt for Irion. He was hoping to play basketball in Europe during the summer and had hoped to be drafted by an NBA team...
...Sometimes we have to give them a jolt," says Dennis DeJoinville, who recently left his position of vice chairman of the program when he was transferred to another prison. "One of them will say 'how much time you doing?' I'll ask, 'how old are you?' The kid will say he's 14. I'll say 'I been here since you were nine.' That has an impact." So do the occasional tours each youth takes through the filthy cell blocks...
...furor continued, Carter seemed pleased by what he had wrought. An aide described him as "very satisfied" with the jolt produced by his press-conference blast. Having been criticized for being too gentlemanly in supporting his energy program, he was suddenly under fire for putting on the 8-oz. gloves-and seemed to relish it. Thursday night, only hours after he took on the oil and gas industry, the President was in a buoyant mood as he played host on the White House South Lawn to 500 Georgians of the "Peanut Brigade," the group that carried the Carter campaign door...
From Hollywood, a boom town with a village psychology, film producers have long been roaming the world searching for unusual locations that will jolt the jaded eyes of moviegoers. Having dispatched camera crews from Abidjan to Zempoaltepec, movie moguls are now discovering an inviting area closer to home: the U.S. Midwest. In the view of film executives, America's heartland is "virgin territory" on the screen, unknown even to many Americans-not to mention foreign movie buffs. It also offers the stark authenticity that many current movies demand: steel mills, gritty factory towns, ghettos black and ethnic, as well...