Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SINCE the Middle East cease-fire went into force last August, Israel has enjoyed a rare interregnum of peace. Thus it came as a shock to Israelis when Premier Golda Meir recently warned them to brace for quite another kind of war, "an internal war that would be rooted in social problems and would be more frightening than any war on the borders." Israel's Premier was alerting her 3,000,000 citizens to domestic crises that have been deliberately set aside during the 23 years since independence, while Israel concentrated on securing its borders. Now, with the cease...
...World elegance of his precourt days at Arnold & Porter (where the firm's partners vetoed his return), Fortas' new Georgetown office sports Danish modern furniture. The man belies the decor: at 60 he seems sadder, his eyes tired and his polished wit dulled. But the shock of his departure from the court has not diminished his deep respect for law. In the first on-the-record interview he has granted since his resignation, Fortas offered TIME'S Dean Fischer and James Simon these observations...
...called that no man's land." Chuckles. Phil continued. "They wanted to make that into a day-care center for kids. As I've told many tours, they must've had a hell of a lot of ambition." A camera clicked while the riders sized up the building and shock their heads...
...approximately 2500 students started marching towards the zocalo or central plaza. Tanks, armed vehicles and battalions of soldiers sealed off the square from demonstrators to protect the National Palace. The demonstrators charged that Cabesa de Vaca, who had been gravely wounded when the young "shock troops" had charged, was being held captive by the police along with other student leaders. Today rumors swept the city that Vaca had been killed by police before the car he was being carried in had even reached its destination...
...arrangements, and of course to the stabbing itself. Throughout Gimme Shelter the Maysles cut from a filmed event to a shot of that same film running through a viewer, and then cut to one of the Stones' vacant faces, a vacancy, you understand, which is supposed to read as shock, or grief, or incomprehension. When Jagger finally sees the murder footage, the big moment has all the spontaneity and excitement of that astronaut's first words from the moon: stagily concerned, Jagger mumbles, "Can you roll back on that, David...