Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cruelest of lies, for even here screenplay has been passed off as cinema verite . Suddenly, in a numbing Borgesian inversion, the movie turns around on itself. We had come to a final knowledge-filmed life isn't life- only to have even that ripped away. Abruptly, with great shock, David Holzman's Diary comes to mean exactly what it is: we thought we'd found a truth about life from a film of lived life; instead, we got that meaning from a piece of imaginative...
...Future Shock, Toffter...
This criterion proved to be quite a shock. The Committee's grounds for allowing an appeal hearing, "compelling evidence" were outrageous. The Committee had set more stringent grounds for granting an appeal hearing than it had previously stipulated for acquittal. This initial outrageous requirement was exacerbated by more Committee mumbo-jumpo...
When I saw Wilson again, he did not exactly shock me when he said that the people to whom he showed the photo thought that there "were little grounds for appeal." I asked Wilson what his own opinion was. He responded that he thought the photo was interesting in that it showed the people in front of the door had their arms linked since this was something the CRR did not know at the time of the hearing. He added that he personally thought anyone in the immediate area was a participant whether he had his arms linked...
...jolting first shock, followed by literally hundreds of smaller aftershocks, struck hardest at the Los Angeles commuting area in the San Fernando Valley, which has a population of 1.3 million...