Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision was to use image to publicizechoice. It's a technique which the right-to-lifershave made a central part of their campaign bydepicting fetuses to shock viewers into agreement,while pro-choice images lacked such visual power.Finding the existing pro-choice visualsdissatisfying Randolph started sketching. Herposters emerged from her hundreds of drawings...
...redeeming value of this book really has nothing to do with its shock value or its publishing quality. It's the splendid arrogance of Sex that really sets it apart. By publishing slick photo sex for mass consumption, Madonna, the promoter, makes a bid for America's fantasy life on an unprecedented scale. She has pushed her image as a mass media sex object to its logical extreme. This is porn-shop feminism in full bloom...
Residents Claim Sticker Shock...
Newspapers are so filled with reports of such crimes that all but the most horrific lose their power to shock. In Madison, Indiana, four teenage girls doused 12-year-old Shanda Sharer with gasoline and burned her alive in January because she was "trying to steal the affections of another girl." Henry ("Little Man") James, 19, opened fire into a passing car on a Washington- area interstate because he felt "like busting somebody." The somebody turned out to be a 32-year-old woman driving home from work. In Los Angeles two teenage sisters allegedly killed an elderly neighbor while...
...interviews this week, Review editors saidthat Schulman has lost credibility and is widelyviewed with shock and disgust...