Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year later, was one of the pivotal events of postwar photography. Its skepticism toward what was then the secular religion of wholesomeness and cheer, its resistance to charm, its out-of-focus foregrounds and deranged angles -- above all, its strange new mood of cool melancholy -- were met with shock at the time. The reception it got from critics -- "warped" and "joyless" were two of the milder descriptions -- is photography's own version of the opening- night riot that greeted Stravinsky's Rite of Spring...
...seven years later, Wallis, a senior editor, has supervised our cover on the Chicago sex survey. "There's a world of difference between this week's study and Hite's in 1987," she says. "Hite was provocative, eager to shock, but there were serious credibility problems with her data. Her report probably reflected more about her notion of the war between the sexes than about anything that was happening between the sheets. This Chicago survey has the feel of science. It may not be gospel, but it's the closest thing we've had to an honest picture of America...
Even worse, he seems to assume automatically that prescriptions laden with conservative values are the only solution to the problems he discovers. In addition, as Murray dubs his own work "social science pornography," it's not clear to what extent shock value is the driving force in his research--and subsequent conclusions...
...people go into shock when they first hear [of the research] then it's definitely a possibility" for submission to the board, Abrahams said...
...sank in the stormy Baltic Sea. It went down at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, so quickly that only 139 of the 1,051 passengers on board were pulled from the water alive. The few who did not drown trapped in the dark cabins of the stricken ship died of shock and hypothermia in the 50 degrees F water...