Word: sensationalized
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The media got wind of our story, and the Saskatchewan facility was top news for weeks; no doubt the rustlers would be on extra guard now. After Lori spoke with her crystallographer, ChrySanda, in North Hollywood, we roamed northern Montana on an "energy hunch." When we showed up in small...
Of course, as pretty much anyone old enough to read this knows, that wasn't just that. Despite a comparative lack of hype, even by 1977's standards, Star Wars was an instant line-around-the-block sensation, raking in then unprecedented repeat business to become the highest-grossing film...
The threat of coercion usually weakens or destroys resistance more effectively than coercion itself. For example, the threat to inflict pain can trigger fears more damaging than the immediate sensation of pain. In fact, most people underestimate their capacity to withstand pain. In general, direct physical brutality creates only resentment...
Imagine that the true spirit of the season infused our people. Imagine that the rush for the 64-bit sensation Spatterguts III dissipated, that the latest digital-audio-video-cellular phenomenon inflicted carpal-tunnel syndrome on shoppers as they whipped out credit cards. Our consumer-electronics industry took in $6.7...
Although Beckmann had to bear the burden of politics in full measure, there are no specific political references in his triptychs because as a painter he wasn't interested in the subject. He wanted his art to go beyond that, relying on what he called "the uninterrupted labor of the...