Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A cocaine high is an intensely vivid, sensation-enhancing experience-though there is no evidence, as is often claimed, that it is aphrodisiacal. For many users, it goes beyond the Freudian euphoria. Says a Manhattan ballerina: "It makes you shiver in tune with the raw, volcanic energy of New York...
The News evidently picked a fight it could not win. Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, owner of the sensation-mongering New York Post (circ. 732,000), counterattacked with a new morning edition. Across town, the New York Times (circ. 931,000) was not impressed; it grew in circulation (up 16...
the growing vogue in Paris at the time was for occult imagery, Rosicrucianism, superstition, nuance-anything but the aim of pointillism, which was to state and quantify visual sensation as "objectively" as possible.
Die Aktuelle was publishing what it described as transcripts of several telephone conversations that were secretly taped while Charles was touring Australia last month. The magazine said it had purchased the transcripts from a Munich literary agent who had obtained them from the British agent of Freelancer Simon Regan. Regan...
Other Harvard performers continued their history of strong showings, which have contributed to twin victories in the team's past two meets. Shot-put sensation Kim Johnson made the finals in her event but was nosed out of the scoring by the competition. Lindy Yeagher and Wiley McCarthy ran good...