Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent cover story, "The Good Life in Minnesota," apparently came as a shock to French Journalist Pierre Billard. Writing in the newsmagazine Le Point, he explained that he was jolted not by "learning that the American Paradise is in Minnesota" but by "finding TIME devoting its cover and ten full pages [twelve in the U.S.] to the revelation." "TIME," he suggested, "has just invented a new kind of journalism . . . Cars that do not have accidents, planes that are not hijacked, rivers that are not polluted, politicians who are honest, couples loving each other without drama or complexes - this...
...When the shock wears off, a few questions remain. Urban desperation is a familiar subject by now, and Bakshi's private fantasies may be more startling than original. The film is a grab bag of drawing styles and animation techniques, some used once, then discarded, others used scattershot throughout, giving the whole picture the chaotic consistency of an experimental sketchbook...
...just as the President seemed about to be given some respite, a new scandal exploded. Vice President Agnew, who had hitherto escaped the taint of Watergate, was officially informed that he was under investigation for allegedly taking kickbacks from contractors. With a mixture of shock and disbelief, many Americans wondered: "Who else? What next?" It was an unprecedented crisis of American leadership, and no one could say whether or when trust in that leadership could ever be restored. It seemed incredible that only a little over a year had passed since Nixon and Agnew had stood at Miami, waving acknowledgment...
...late '30s, much of what Wells had predicted had come true. A world already in future shock either forgot him or patronized him. Cruelly, Lytton Strachey snobbishly noted: "I stopped thinking about Wells the moment he became a thinker." Not everyone did, however. As late as 1969, Michael Crichton took the basic gimmick from The War of the Worlds and turned it into the bestseller The Andromeda Strain. For millions of people, one Wellsian prediction, as headlined in the New York American in 1933, has yet to lose its Chill: H.G. WELLS VISIONS THE ENTIRE WORLD IN THE CLUTCHES...
...struck one of the main veins of the American consciousness with a biography of Marilyn Monroe, and he has mastered the art of eliciting a much vaster response with much less effort. Marilyn: a biography by Norman Mailer with pictures by the World's Greatest Photographers has made shock waves which have surpassed those the author is accustomed to creating in the literary pond, and has indeed touched the fancy of the masses...