Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MONTH ago, the initial response in foreign countries to President Nixon's economic blockbuster was a curious mixture of shock and sympathy. Although bankers, businessmen and government officials were stunned by the President's decisions, many said that Nixon was justified in taking drastic action to buttress the dollar. Last week quite a few of those leaders began to express a very different set of feelings. In Europe and Japan, they were muttering that the U.S. is refusing to compromise in solving major international problems that are largely of its own making...
...from his appetite for food and music to the caftans, Mickey Mouse shirts, canes and monocles he sometimes affects. "This is not the age of manners," he says. "This is the age of kicking people in the crotch and telling them something and getting a reaction. I want to shock people into awareness. I don't believe there's any virtue in understatement...
...high noon Johnny and Kirk decide to go for their guns in a bullring conveniently located at the edge of town. Tickets will be sold, faster gun takes the proceeds. The spectators in the bullring may get a lot for their money, but the movie's trick shock ending thoroughly flimflams the filmgoer...
...initial shock came after a jewelry store was robbed in the seaside resort of Blackpool. As the traditionally unarmed constabulary chased five men who had looted the store of about $125,000 in jewels, the escaping thieves opened fire. Blackpool's respected chief of police, Superintendent Gerald Irving Richardson, was killed, and two of his constables were wounded. To an aroused public, 100,000 of whom turned out for the slain superintendent's funeral, the Blackpool shooting underscored the fact that the underworld in Britain is no longer reluctant to resort to armed violence. Not even the Great...
...ripping the dollar loose from gold and slapping a 10% surtax on imports, Richard Nixon inaugurated a global power play designed to boost U.S. exports and cut the country's worsening balance of payments deficit. Though his moves came as a shock, it appears that he acted none too soon; last week the Commerce Department reported that in July U.S. imports had exceeded exports for the fourth straight month. Still, now that some of the excitement surrounding the Nixon initiative is subsiding, a hard truth is hitting bankers, businessmen and government leaders the world over: a return...