Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Love is the only shocking fact left on the fact of the earth," Sandra Bernhard declares near the beginning of her second book, Love, Love, and Love. Bernhard seems just the woman to prove it: she's flirted with Madonna on national TV, performed strip teases with the American flag and made David Letterman blush. Surely few other American entertainers know as much about the shock value of unusual pleasures. Unfortunately, her new book, composed largely of unrelated vignettes, suggests that she is an entertainer who works better on the screen than the page...
...most improved autos in the latest J.D. Power survey carried U.S. nameplates. (Three U.S. brands made the Power list of the 10 highest-rated cars in terms of owner satisfaction, up from one model when the survey began in 1986.) Moreover, with the strong yen triggering ticker shock in showrooms that sell Japanese makes, consumers are finding that buying American makes practical as well as patriotic sense...
This intriguing topic needs to be handled with the sure, deftness of rational consideration. Instead, Filipacchi sets out, mechanically and determinedly, to shock her audience. She seemingly fails to realize that for a population accustomed to the excesses of tabloid television and a steady consumption of its lurid confessions, this may be an impossible task...
...calculation behind the marketing of this novel is stunningly obvious. Provocatively titled, it utilizes sex primarily as a marketing factor. Why are nude men the subject of Lady Henrietta's work? For the shock value, if nothing else. Let's subvert the hierarchy, let's get a surefire gimmick...
...despite the future-shock flourishes, most of Zooropa flies beneath the radar, mapping a personal terrain of reflection and emotional catharsis. The sensory overload of superstardom is chillingly conveyed in Numb as the Edge's monotonic vocal is underscored by a lacerating guitar lick. Other songs are suffused with a sense of fleeting time. In Some Days Are Better than Others, Bono observes, "Some days take less but most days take more/ Some days slip through your fingers and onto the floor." And in the hymnlike Dirty Day, he seems to glimpse his own mortality as he sings, "These days...