Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale also admits to being "pooped." Even so, his campaign has been fairly error free since it made the almost fatal mistake of ignoring Hart before New Hampshire. After that shock, Mondale seemed strangely liberated, giving his strongest speeches of the campaign on his best issue, compassion and fairness to the poor. He attacked Hart with a toughness many thought Mondale lacked. As Illinois approached, Mondale began to lose some steam, but he remained well insulated by his able handlers. All of a sudden his stolid candidacy, which had contrasted so poorly with Hart's campaign of new ideas...
Wiggins could not be reached for comment, but according to Calian, who had interviewed him previously, Wiggins' intent was "to shake up the neo-liberal attitudes on campus and provoke change." Calian added that he felt that Wiggins "got the shock he was after...
With research and political action occupying his time interchangably, Lang finds ways of drawing public attention to all of his exploits. "He operates in a way to sort of attract publicity by trying to shock people," Tate says...
...melodic Irish intonation by a man who could have modeled for Eliot's caricature. Currently a poet in residence at Harvard, Heaney is hardly noticed on campus or strolling the Boston waterfront. At 44, he checks in at 5 ft. 10 in. and 200 lbs.; with his shock of thinning gray hair and the thick-fingered hands of a farmer, like his father's and grandfather's before him, he might pass for an immigrant long shoreman or an off-duty officer. But the appearance is what he calls "the great fur coat of attitude." Beneath...
...dubious as that of "sartorial individualism," because clothing is an unreliable barometer of ideological sincerity. Why shouldn't a Marxist wear a three-piece suit? Or a feminist, spiked heels and false eyelashes? Would dressing like a Prole or a Libber automatically authenticate their convictions? And, aside from the shock value, what was really so meaningful during the sixties about hippies wearing United States flags on their bottoms? The professional anti-Establishmentarian Abbie Hoffman--who did precisely that--held as archaic a view of women, for example, as any flannel suited corporate redneck...