Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more work and scrapped it. Antibusing parents were elated, but then the state supreme court overruled the earlier decision. It now appears that the program, involving 800 additional buses, will go into effect this week. But nobody knows exactly how. Sighed one school board aide: "It is just one shock after another...
...hire me to come out and talk about what his new film should be. It was very much writtern-to-order, incorporating elements I really wanted to deal with, like penny arcades, blacks in periwinkle shoes...." Periwinkle shoes? "Yeah," he smiles, grinning wolfishly, trying to gauge the shock value...
...Barthold, a fourth-year graduate student in the Economics Department who voted with the committee to switch textbooks, said, "People have looked at it (the Lipsey and Steiner textbook) over the past few years and seen that it was getting better, so it is no big shock...
Once one gets past the initial shock, A Slave of Love proves to be a decent knockoff. Like Renoir's 1939 film, it offers a moving portrait of a society on the brink of convulsive change. Set just after the 1917 Revolution, the film takes place in pastoral Crimea, where a harried group of actors and moviemakers are trying to complete a frivolous silent melodrama. Hundreds of miles away, the government has fallen to the Bolsheviks, but the film company tries to go doggedly about its business. Inevitably, Slave's characters discover that not even artists can hide...
Americans are discovering that sad fact when they go abroad themselves, as they are doing this year in record numbers. The big attraction is the lowered air fares, but many tourists are not prepared for the rude shocks they receive when they change their dollars into foreign currencies. West Germany's seven U.S. consulate offices are flooded with young tourists who hopped aboard cheap flights with the expectation of living in Europe on, say, $10 a day. Ten dollars an hour is more like it, and they find themselves stranded. Philadelphians Eugene and Bonnie Baker planned to bicycle around England...