Word: sensationalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As the train picked up speed, passengers nervously groped for the arms of their reclining seats. But thanks to the super-smooth track, there was almost no sensation of acceleration. Outside the large, tinted windows, wild flowers became smears of yellow, the pastoral scene a pastiche of blurry cows, fences...
The committee made its decision after reviewing videotapes and other evidence of the New Jersey Senator's dealings with undercover FBI agents. The tapes, which caused a sensation during Williams' trial in federal court last April, show him meeting with an agent dressed in sheik's clothes...
Long the bible of New York's ethnic and blue-collar communities, the News started to slip as its traditional audience moved to the suburbs. Circulation dropped from 1.9 million in 1975 to 1.5 million last spring. To stanch the flow, the News and the parent Chicago Tribune Co...
A few smoke marijuana for the same purpose, or mix their C with heroin in a process called "speedballing" or "boy-girl." This produces a tug-of-war in which the exhilaration of coke is undercut by the heroin. As one former user describes the sensation, "It's like...
It would be hard to think of an artist who better deserved all this effort. Rodin had no successful followers because, as V.S. Naipaul once remarked of Charles Dickens, "the very magnitude of his vision, its absorption into myth, precluded as grand an attempt." There would, of course, be great...