Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Her sponsors did not even know that she was coming until she was in the air over the North Atlantic, but no matter. Diminutive Bernadette Devlin, at 22 the youngest member of Britain's House of Commons and a notable firebrand in Northern Ireland's recent disorders, overnight...
How Did He Escape? Describing the climactic moment on television, Kennedy said that he had no idea at all of how he got free of the car, which overturned in the tidal water. "I remember thinking, as the cold water rushed in around my head," he said "that I was...
"I'm very old-fashioned," admits Los Angeles' Richard Diebenkorn. "Though I'm interested in most of the new art, painting remains for me a very physical thing, an involvement with a tangible feeling of sensation." In that, Manhattan's Robert Natkin would concur. "The giant...
What finally redeems Wells for the contemporary reader is the shadow of doubt beneath the bravado-the unspoken but ever-present question of young Wells, the born loser: "What if I'm wrong?" When he was only 25, Wells wrote: "Science is a match that man has just got...
I learned pretty quickly that I like to mingle sex and art only rarely. Art is powerful as long as it transcends the everyday. Without distorting reality it catapults in into a higher plane of sensation. Certain sublime moments in life can simulate the best art (or vice-versa). And...