Word: sensationalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy it has engendered. Kubrick has removed the book's human qualities to the extent that the only ones that should be bothered by the violence are the stunt-men's wives. He has transformed Christian anger into adolescent braying. He has made a hard-driving piece of sensationalist entertainment, but the only serious subject I see Kubrick able to cope with after it is military history. He's currently prepping a film on Napoleon...
Columnist Jack Anderson, Washington's most persistent sensationalist, thrives on contention. His column, Washington Merry-Go-Round, gives his audience frequent scoops, but many of his fellow newsmen regard as frivolous his uneven mixture of muckraking and kiss-and-tell gossip. Last week, however, Anderson was basking in more serious attention, after his Merry-Go-Round grabbed off something of a brass ring. In four columns, he disclosed private policy discussions of the Washington Security Action Group, composed of experts from the National Security Council, State Department and Pentagon, concerning Administration action in the India-Pakistan...
...itself to the proper image of an austere Communist. And her association with a spoiled playboy who had Communist connections is the stuff of an Irving Wallace novel. So what gives? Are the Communists using Miss Davis to revamp their dreary image? Is Angela using the Communists and the sensationalist media to put us all on? Or beneath all those academic trappings, is Prof. Davis simply a crazy, mixed-up broad...
...American kind) dead these thirty years-for the hero's obsessions and the events that keep animating the house. Instead of taking quantities of diverse experiences, and showing us the ways we process this material and the ways it obsesses us, the film turns its cultural matter to sensationalist ends, and obstructs an analysis of human thought instead of offering it directions...
...again examining them, as part of its broader study of the market, and even New York Stock Exchange President Robert Haack concedes: "The specialist system has its shortcomings." As if that were not enough, Richard Ney, a onetime movie actor turned investment adviser, has condemned the specialists in his sensationalist bestseller, The Wall Street Jungle. He charges that the specialists manipulate the market and more than make up their short-term losses by turning enormous profits when prices rise, as they eventually do. Most Wall Streeters find Ney's indictment grossly overstated, though few disagree with his underlying premise...