Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the 1950s, TV series without continuing characters or story lines, such as Playhouse 90 and The U.S. Steel Hour, provided some of prime time's most illustrious moments. In 1985 this kind of liberation from a rigid weekly format offers viewers a new and welcome sensation: the feeling that...
Harvard, on the other hand, has many real strengths. The Crimson's motto this year--"Speed thrills"--isn't an empty promise. Senior sensation Robert Santiago, who led the Ivies in rushing with over 800 yards a year ago, headlines a supersonic offensive attack that will yely on quickness, not...
Bacon utterly rejects this view. He sees himself not as an expressionist but as a realist who nevertheless stakes the outcome of his art on an opposition between intelligence (ordering, remembering, exemplifying) and sensation. His paintings do not strive to tell stories, but to clamp themselves on the viewers' nervous...
The decade is half over, but already one begins to feel the peculiar sensation of looking back on the art of the '80s. How, in America, have its frequent miseries balanced out against its episodic splendors? The end of a century -- and even more, the end of a millennium -- brings...
The appeal of drugs, beyond the immediate physical sensation, is that they give one a license to be irresponsible. One is part of a spectacle, and it is permitted to break things, to scream, and to say "I love you" without consequence. When we attend a spectacular divestment rally and...