Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...composed of two centuries of solidified human rubbish, it is often studded with beer cans, packing crates and half-submerged logs. Auxiliary coast guardsmen spent seven days policing the river before last week's President's Cup Regatta-knowing full well that a bit of flotsam could shatter the fragile hull of a hydroplane hurtling across the water at 150 m.p.h. or more...
...major effects. For one thing, it tends to shatter and dissolve the usual web of associations and habit patterns. A telephone, for instance, is suddenly nothing but a black plastic object of a certain shape-how outrageous and funny to see someone pick it up and talk to it as though it were a person. The boundaries that normally separate things from each other, or from oneself, may be dissolved also. This may cause the impression that one's limbs and torso are liquefying and flowing away (horror!); or that one is in such close rapport with others...
Bunuel leads us along the borderline of bourgeois satire, in a vein as old as Moliere; but only briefly. Sadist Josef is an anti-Semite, and his violent Fascist explosions shatter the relatively calm surface of the satire. A visit from the cure begins as a mild lampoon of the clergy, but breaks all bounds when Madame seeks a little sex-education...
...hazard. A reactor big enough to power a 335,000-lb. 707 jet, for example, would require 225,000 Ibs. of radiation shielding to protect passengers-considerably more than the plane could lift. In the event of a crash, the high impact speed of the plane would almost certainly shatter the reactor, exposing anyone in the vicinity to radiation...
...University of Paris and studied at Harvard's Public Administration School before going to work for Lazard Frères in Paris as an investment analyst. Alexandre soon became disturbed by the obstacles that traditional business secrecy placed in the path of expanding business activity. He decided to shatter the secrecy with an organization that would function partly like a Wall Street brokerage house and, by necessity, partly like the French government's intelligence-hunting Deuxième Bureau. With a loan from Zurich's Swiss Credit Bank, he opened offices in his apartment: his staff used...