Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kelly Reid '77 said yesterday, "It makes me feel like doing everything! I want to go on a picnic, go bicycling, stroll along the river, and climb some building and scream because exams are over and it's warm again like summer...
...what most people scream about is relevance, and few see the subject of this article as being relevant. Yet sport is one of the most pervasive aspects of our society--hence, its relevance exists beyond a shadow of a doubt...
...kinky images? Some think it is nothing more than a scream for attention from photographers and editors who find their audiences increasingly difficult to shock. Alex Liberman, editorial director of Conde Nast publications, considers it "just an experiment with something new, a trend, a moment of spice." Feminists take a darker view. "Men are feeling guilty and sexually threatened," says Cambridge, Mass., Teacher Jean Kilbourne, who lectures on the influence of the communications industry. "The image of the abused woman is a logical extension of putting the uppity woman in her place." Many psychiatrists agree that the trend reflects...
...extravagant, baroque, visually stupendous theatrics. The curtain rises, as it were, on a magnificent Venetian mosque on the Grand Canal. As fireworks explode above the Rialto and gondolas pass below, the huge head of a woman is hoisted out of the canal. Suddenly--a rope breaks, poles fall, masquers scream and the vast shape sinks back under the dark green water. The camera focuses in on one costumed mannequin, dressed in white, with his hair pulled back off an amazingly high forehead. The stage is set for Casanova...
...true that sport proceeds without a script. My hunch is that Oakland will defeat Minnesota, but that is a hunch and nothing more. (Bet at your own risk.) It is true that the athlete, unlike the movie star, takes real risks. When his knee ligaments tear, his scream is agony, not acting. But our perception of such things is increasingly reduced to a 19-in. picture tube. With its illimitable superficiality, television forever mingles illusion and reality. So our new perception of sport, and our children's basic perception of sport, suggests that a game is one more...