Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shock wave of attacks on policemen, Philadelphia has been an epicenter. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager made the rounds one night last week with two members of the city's elite, all-volunteer "highway patrol," a highly mobile force distinctly unpopular in the high crime areas where it is deployed. The patrolmen were David Messaros, 29, white, with two years on the force; and Lawrence Boston, 26, black, a four-year veteran. Prager reports their feelings about the perils of their...
Anyone who thought that this treatment might flatter him into flattery got a rude shock. He enlarged the Paris bureau staff and expanded his domain to include the Italian and Spanish collections. He sent his reporters to nightclubs, theaters, chic restaurants and chichi resorts to note not only what jet-setters were wearing but what they were doing while wearing it. A letter to his father explained his aims: "WWD must be alive in this alive business, WWD must be controversial in this controversial business, WWD must be smart and snobby in this smart and snobbish business." In late...
There were no charred bras and few of the shock tactics of earlier local demonstrations, such as ogle-ins aimed at hardhats ("I bet you've got nice, hairy legs. Why don't you wear shorts?"). The movement has little organization, few chants or ringing slogans, and plenty of detractors, such as West Virginia Senator Jennings Randolph, who called the demonstrators "braless bubble-heads." But the women turned their opponents away with more tolerance and humor than has been the norm in American street politics. In the process, they probably won new support and undoubtedly new awareness among...
...insanity of contemporary life. The two pseudo-hipsters in the park, and thousands more like them, have made Elliott Gould a star for an uptight age. In Gould they see all their tensions, frustrations and insecurities personified and turned into nervous comedy that both tickles and stings with the shock of recognition...
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. Men assume that women want to imitate them, which is just what white people assumed about blacks. An assumption so strong that it may convince the second-class group of the need to imitate, but for both women and blacks that stage has passed. Guilt produces the question: What if they could treat us as we have treated them...