Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The middle and distance freestyle events will be Harvard's greatest strengths, Gambril said. Sophomore sensation Fred Mitchell and freshman Dick Baughman are among the best in the East in anything from 200 to 1000 yards, he said. Mitchell, in particular, will be worth watching. In a preseason meet before...
The southpaw sensation of the 1971 baseball season, Pitcher Vida Blue of the Oakland Athletics, has just been named the Most Valuable Player in the American League by the Baseball Writers Association. It made a double for the 22-year-old after only one full season in the major leagues...
In strict filmic terms. Brook and his cameraman, Henning Kristiansen, supply plenty of visual pyrotechnics. One decision was splendid. The dominating color, or noncolor, of the film is white. This creates the proper sensation of wintry old age and bleakness. The film gives off an almost palpable and desolating coldness...
Something Personal. There was a lot of impressionism in Vuillard, for he enjoyed what the older painters liked: the panoply of color in a new-minted atmosphere. But pattern was the core of his work, most dramatically in the 1890s, when he produced a run of paintings, including some remarkable...
Against Vacuity. Caravaggio looks curiously modern as an artist, though he died 31 centuries ago. His work became a line of cleavage between the "modernists" and conservatives of Rome. For in the 1590s, when Caravaggio first settled there, Roman art had descended into glassy, learned vacuity. Painters were still traumatized...