Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the American grief in Viet Nam was played out in the national imagination by way of movies and television. If the grunts on search-and-destroy in the Central Highlands sometimes kept themselves going with a jolt of John Wayne from The Sands of two Jima, the people at home took their war each night live in their living rooms, mainlined by television directly into the bloodstream. Viet Nam was so intimately recorded that it became almost unendurably real-yet also impossibly remote, 9,000 miles away, a dark hallucination. And along with the war on the tube...
...desire for mindless excitement this year," says Gene Stavis, director of Manhattan's American Cinemathèque. "Whether it's laughter or screams, anything that gets the adrenaline going gets people into the theater. We are in an era when people are looking for a jolt...
...proving to be a busy month. After his talks with Dobrynin last week, Vance flew to London, where he addressed the Royal Institute of International Affairs on what he called "the emerging SALT II agreement." This week he is visiting Egypt and Israel in a last-minute attempt to jolt their stalled peace talks back into motion. He will report to the President in Washington, then head for his meeting with Gromyko in Geneva before returning again to the U.S. capital...
...biggest jolt for Americans who plan to travel extensively abroad is the cost of intra-European airplane tickets and the use of a car. The tourist who has flown from New York City to London for $138 finds that he must pay $575 for a round-trip economy flight from England to Athens. In Germany, where the visitor might expect to rent a small Mercedes-Benz 200 for a reasonable sum, he will find that it costs $82.60 a day, plus 30? per kilometer, plus gas, which can cost $1.75 per gal. on an autobahn. Obviously, the U.S. tourist needs...
...Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself in the position of a price-conscious buyer who has been out of the market for a few years and then visits a showroom to do some tire kicking. Says he sympathetically, "It's a jolt to see what...