Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Afrikaners adjusted to the shock of Mulder's resignation, Prime Minister P.W. Botha struggled desperately to prevent the scandal from spreading. Botha publicly dismissed Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert. The jurist had conducted a one-man probe of the operation of the slush fund during the time that Mulder served as Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. Mostert's report produced testimony from witnesses that the Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions...
Blumenthal vigorously disputes the idea that last week's Government actions made a recession inevitable. He contends that the downward spiral of the dollar and stock market was mostly a result of a "perverse psychological climate." The President's shock treatment, he predicts, "will turn the situation around." It will give business leaders and consumers confidence that Carter intends to be tough in defending the dollar and fighting inflation, so that they will go on buying and investing. That view has some support even among businessmen who concede that the new program will cause them some trouble. Robert Corson, treasurer...
...tortures to which they had been subjected. Last week, for the first time, Iranians read about the horrors that much of the rest of the world already knew: the "Apollo machine," a chair in which prisoners were tied while their feet were slashed and they were tortured with electric shock; the "helmet," a metal apparatus designed to make the victim's screams reverberate inside his head; and such practices as hanging women prisoners naked from the ceiling and burning them with cigarettes. So shocking were the disclosures that newly appointed Justice Minister Hussein Najafi immediately promised the release...
...long strike wears on, the public seems to feel less of a need for news. It has found other things to do, other things to read. Michael O'Neill, the wryly cheerful editor of the Daily News, acknowledges a cultural shock in himself: he feels uncomfortably out of touch with the city. The mayor greets him and says, "Is anything happening? and asks nervously, "How am I doing...
Another problem: In the book we feel strangely close to the admittedly despicable Herman; we perceive him crumbling, and we experience a violent shock when reality and the law close quickly in on him at the end. But the movie keeps its distance. This detatchment could be Bogarde's fault: maybe he's too prim to pull us in the way someone like Alan Bates might have. Or maybe Fassbinder and Stoppard work so hard at distancing us from him physically, framing him, blocking him, giving us a sense of deliberate camera placement, that they forget about bringing him closer...