Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forcing courts to determine the voluntariness of his confession. The issue becomes a "swearing contest" between the scruffy confessor and three or four detectives who swear they never coerced him. Understandably, most judges and juries prefer to believe policemen; indeed, judges overlook trickery in the squeal room that would shock them in the courtroom...
...years of exams and papers. The way a student goes about learning, and the way he shows what he's learned to those that judge him are skills of experience; being able to consult someone who has already acquired them would tend to lessen the average freshman's initial shock at doing college work...
...never gone more than 15 minutes without the spasms that now cause pain in her nose, ears, chest and abdomen. A high school sophomore, she has had to give up classes. Jackson Memorial specialists tried antihistamines, tranquilizers, central-nervous-system depressants, narcotics, X rays, antibiotics, local astringents, hypnotism, shock treatment and muscle relaxants-all to no avail...
...Topographies, he has exalted the artistic possibilities of ordinary dirt. His latest works, titled L'Hourloupes (opposite)-probably a pun on entourlouper, "to deceive, to misguide"-dip even further into the mad world to find images that he hopes will produce "a strong exaltation and a disturbing shock...
Bulging Eye. What seems like doodling at first sight soon appears to have its own peculiar, illogical order, a system of delusions. His shock treatment is conveyed by a line that is like a delirium tremor; once snared, the eye lopes along in a crazy rhythm, here surprised by a prominent nose, there by a bulging eye, now tripping over a clodhopper of a shoe, now stumbling onto a wretchedly knobby knee, all in a never-never land of ambiguity. Having attacked the canons of classical art, he now seems intent on undercutting the distinctions between normalcy and abnormality...