Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truly bizarre. In the classic story of good man led astray, DeMille pays little attention to the seduced here, concentrating instead on Delilah's lust for Samson. From her first appearance, as the kid sister of Samson's beloved, she is obviously excited by Samson's body, and her reaction to his outwrestling a lion is explicitly sexual. DeMille tentatively suggests Delilah's role as emasculating bitch (at one point she turns Samson into a docile houseboy), but ultimately backs away from this idea and has her "repent." Still, between DeMille's perversity and Hedy Lamarr's devastating charms, Delilah...
Jackie's reaction was predictable. Her secretary informed Annemarie that "Mrs. Kennedy feels it would be better if you didn't come back." Said Annemarie, who claims she never talked to the columnist: "It was a wrench. I admired her, and I loved and adored her children. I was ready to jump down 20 floors." Instead, she went to the hairdresser, donned a miniskirt and received the press...
...Malamud, Donleavy, Roth, Friedman, Burroughs, Heller, Pynchon, Willingham-works from an assumption that society is at best malevolent and stupid, at worst wholly lunatic. The gods are dead and their graves untended, morality is a matter of picking one's way between competing absurdities, and the only sane reaction to society-to its alleged truths and virtues, its would-be terrors and taboos-is a cackle or a scream of possibly cathartic laughter. Sex in particular is the target, and the black humorists especially have been stripping away its pretensions to holiness, love mystery and galactic consequence...
...Bankers predicted that loans will now grow costly enough to crimp small businessmen, capital-goods industries and local government construction projects. Worst hit, as usual, will be new housing, which is uniquely sensitive to a downturn when rates jump-as mortgage lenders agreed they surely will. A more immediate reaction came on the New York Stock Exchange, where the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 11.56 points in the week's final trading session. The drop not only erased earlier gains, but left the bellwether index at 897.65, an 8.04-point loss for the week...
McLuhcmalysis. That qualifier suggests what is really the great imponderable of all TV news: picture power. It bears not only on the question of riots but on every news event in which TV with live coverage (in color), turns reaction into action. To what extent have strikers, angrily airing their grievances on TV, caused other union men to hit the picket lines? Have scenes of racist mobs screaming insults at Negroes in spired white viewers to march for civil rights? What would Stokely Carmichael's influence be without his exposure on TV?* And how many suburbanites, after seeing...