Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kirkland House Senior Tutor Garth O. McCavanasays the transition for the students from thefirst-year proctor system to the house advisingsystems can be jarring. "It's a shock. They are soused to having someone daily holding their hands,"he says...
...breasts. A montage of porno clips plays on one screen (or nipple, as the case may be). However, a breast implant rests on the screen itself, distorting the image. A plastic casing forces the viewer to stare at the monitor in order to comprehend the video. After an initial shock, the audience becomes conscious of the nature of its gaze: the clinical yet voyeuristic setting renders it incredibly real and perverse. On the other monitor, an educational program informs the viewer of the medical aspects of breast feeding. Again, childhood and sexuality are linked, yet warped due to the sexualization...
...Nixon. When he left Washington, there was a chance he might yet be prosecuted. Gerald Ford fixed that a month later by issuing a presidential pardon protecting Nixon from legal penalties for anything he had done in connection with Watergate. But Nixon's health was poor, his psychic shock obvious. An attack of phlebitis nearly killed him. He later told friends that he heard voices calling, "Richard, pull yourself back...
Which, to all appearances, is what Singapore wanted. The question of whether anyone should care about Michael Fay is idle: though Singapore officials profess shock at the attention his case has drawn, they know Americans care deeply about the many sides of this issue. Does a teenager convicted of spraying cars with easily removable paint deserve half a dozen powerful strokes on the buttocks with a sopping-wet bamboo staff? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach to a safe society about human...
...common culture, trying to be a universal society that assimilates the traditions of people from all over the world. Efforts to safeguard minority as well as individual rights have produced, as Lee charges, a gridlock in the justice system. America is not the pandemonium portrayed in the shock-addicted mass media. But its troubles stem more from the decay of family life than from any government failures. Few societies can afford to look on complacently. As travel eases and cultures intermix, the American experience is becoming the world...