Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Identical Abduction. Exacerbating the climate of crisis was another shock the same day: Lieut. General Emilio Villaescusa Quilis, 64, head of the special military tribunal that was used in Franco's days to try major political offenders, was kidnaped in broad daylight. The general was grabbed by unidentified gunmen in front of his apartment house, bundled into his Mercedes and whisked away into captivity. The operation was almost identical to the abduction Dec. 11 of right-wing Industrialist Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, president of an advisory council to Spain's head of state. Oriol...
...kinky images? Some think it is nothing more than a scream for attention from photographers and editors who find their audiences increasingly difficult to shock. Alex Liberman, editorial director of Conde Nast publications, considers it "just an experiment with something new, a trend, a moment of spice." Feminists take a darker view. "Men are feeling guilty and sexually threatened," says Cambridge, Mass., Teacher Jean Kilbourne, who lectures on the influence of the communications industry. "The image of the abused woman is a logical extension of putting the uppity woman in her place." Many psychiatrists agree that the trend reflects...
...example, a female speaker designated "Mouth" commits an extended monologue on the shock she felt when she found herself talking out loud after a mute childhood. She speaks in short, half-connected bursts, yet Beckett's stingy way with words captures her existence fully:"... parents unknown ... unheard of... he having vanished ... thin air ... no sooner buttoned up his breeches... she similarly... eight months later ... almost to the tick ... so no love ... spared that ... no love such as normally vented on the ... speechless infant..." In a phrase as simple as "spared that," Beckett blends savage humor and poignancy...
...time until his return to Chile in 1952 was spent writing, living in Europe and traveling in Asia and the Soviet Union, which he loved oblivious to the imminence of what he would later call "Stalin's dark night." The revelations of the Twentieth Congress came as a grave shock to Neruda, one which the Memoirs show he could only hesitatingly accept. He refutes accusations in the Memoirs that he remained a die-hard Stalinist, even after the Congress, yet he writes that he can never forget that Stalin had appeared to the world as the "titanic defender...
Outwardly, at least, there was no gloom in the White House during Gerald Ford's final days there. The shock of his election loss was over, and Ford left with the sense that the American people appreciated what he had achieved during his 2½ years in the presidency. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela was present during those last days and filed this report...