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Here are all the ingredients for a standard shocker. Still, Updike handles his characters with a combination of controlled repugnance and tolerance that results in some very close readings of their emotional fevers. His style does not preclude tenderness, kindness or sensitivity, although he often seems like an experienced physician smoothly examining a naked patient. The effect is a fascination that distracts the mind from predictability of both plot and retribution. The end finds Rabbit and Janice joining up once again with the cold, metallic precision of a lunar landing vehicle docking with its command module after a mission...
Countermeasures from Tokyo. Japan, which stands to lose more than any other nation under the Nixon program, showed a deepening resistance toward it. Last week five Japanese ministers traveled to Washington for an annual meeting with U.S. Cabinet members, which concentrated heavily on problems of the "Nixon shocker," as it is called in Japan. Nixon and Secretary of State William Rogers made elaborate personal gestures aimed at underscoring the basic Japanese-U.S. friendship. Rogers took the delegation of visiting Japanese and their wives to a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the Kennedy Center for the Performing...
...Biggest Shocker. Avery need not have worried. The games had barely begun when it became apparent last week that the U.S. team was perhaps facing its toughest competition ever. The first surprise came in rowing, an event in which the U.S. copped six of seven first-place medals in the 1967 games. All but scuttled by crack crews from Argentina and Brazil, the U.S. oarsmen were unable to pull to a single victory. Unimpressed by Abner Doubleday's national origins, a seasoned Cuban baseball team then defeated a squad made up of U.S. collegians 4-3. The biggest shocker...
...four weekly shows so far, the content has been somewhat less compelling than the style. Most successful segments: a film essay on Americans' fixation with auto demolition derbies; savage slashes by Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman at pharmaceutical hucksterism and the futility of "law-and-order"; a muckraking shocker by Author Paul Jacobs on the allegedly slipshod safety standards of the Atomic Energy Commission; and a sketch on romance, True Confessions-style...
...that makes no differences; as a shocker, the word is dying. I haven't yet run across it in the Ladies' Home Journal, but then I don't read that magazine every month either. We may as well face reality. "Fuck," like "Agnew," is becoming a household word...