Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest CIA exposé by former Agent Philip Agee. His book, Inside the Company, is a sheaf of accusations and recollections that can no longer astonish a world grown familiar with the vagaries of secret services. Nevertheless, Agee's tales are worth attention, less for their shock value than for the descriptions of a subterranean arena...
...Shock Value. Warhol's retrospective, which opened last week at the Baltimore Museum of Art, shows how this legendary affectlessness took form as painting. Organized by Brenda Richardson, the museum's curator of painting and sculpture, the exhibition consists of 40 works. From the outset, Warhol's reputation was based on a sort of iconic shock value-nobody since Marcel Duchamp had been so flat and matter-of-fact. Warhol presented a row of stenciled Coca-Cola bottles as a work of art, turned out a series of 32 Campbell's soup cans differing only...
...prices are certain to rise substantially, and the increase will have the same effect on the economy as a big new tax boost would. There is a growing consensus among Republicans and Democrats that some sort of new tax cuts will be needed to cushion the oil shock and keep the economy rising. Says Economist Arthur Okun: "It is crucial that oil prices do not drain real consumer purchasing power...
...intense passion. Ann Marie Beigel, who plays Regina, remains at a level of intense passion, posturing so much that she becomes a caricature: Steven Gilborn, who plays Ben Hubbard, the sly son who plots his father's destruction, settles for mocking subtlety, so it comes as something of a shock when he threatens his father with...
Although floating rates have not lived up to expectations, they did help currency values adjust to the shock of quintupled oil prices in 1973 and early 1974. Partly for that reason, there is no agreement that others should now follow France's lead and shift back to fixed rates. Says Treasury Secretary William Simon: "The old system was abandoned | for one simple reason. It didn't work." Clearly, it did not work at all well during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the industrialized nations I lurched from one chaotic monetary crisis to another. Members...