Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they ask me if I count off for English spelling, I say 'Of course not; you'd all flunk.' " She criticizes the severity of her native German schools, but frets: "Next year, these kids are going to sit in lecture halls and it's going to be a big shock. Some have never even taken a semester test...
Expected, but still a shock...
Coming from an environment where he could act out his artistic ambitions to one where he can only talk about them is, however, something of a culture shock for the visiting professor. "It's like the difference between plant and animal life," he says. "Animals grow quickly, move quickly, and die quickly. Plants take a lot of time to produce something lasting, like a tree. Now I feel I'm being asked to move less and be wise more...
...SHOCK VALUE of the coarseness and profanity in Stop the World has now all but vanished, and Littlechap's abuse of so many people in his search for happiness seems disturbingly familiar nowadays. For by highlighting the baser sides of human nature, the play's authors do no more than point out that they have always existed. It is commendable that the members of the Mather production included a statement of their disagreement with the script's exaggerated stereotypes in the show program. It's too bad, however, that they decided to do a show they must apologize for, although...
Though her topless tricots were the sensation of the show, most of Rykiel's line did not rely on shock value but on the fact that her clothes were imaginative, brilliantly colored and practical. She is the most womanly of designers, who recognizes that "every woman must create her own ambience; it is not I or Yves St. Laurent but the woman who has to create herself and be a unique person." She adds: "I make my clothes for real, living women of our times?not movie stars ?who have to be with children...