Word: shocks
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Intense, erotic, opulently colorful, the flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe provide a heady mixture of sheer sensory shock and austere formalism, of extreme close-up scale and bold monumentality. In this 100th anniversary year of the artist's birth, a selection has been beautifully reproduced in Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers (Knopf; $100). Their richness and vibrancy seem to leave nothing to say, and Editor Nicholas Callaway, except in a brief afterword, presents the plates without comment. The effect is magnificently simple, and simply magnificent...
Less than two weeks after a bloody rampage by soldiers and armed thugs made a farce of the country's attempt at a democratic transition, the people of Haiti were still in shock. Efforts foundered to forge a united opposition to the three-man provisional government headed by Lieut. General Henri Namphy. The four leading presidential candidates supported calls for general strikes last week, but their goals initially differed. Some aimed to dissolve the government, while others demanded reinstatement of a nine-member independent electoral council disbanded by Namphy. By week's end all four agreed to call...
When a series of nude billboards began appearing last week, Parisians reacted with confusion rather than shock. Was the naked runner with a rose in his hand advertising a floral delivery service? Were the children, all in the buff, promoting a softer bathroom tissue? And the pregnant woman pressing a rose to her bare breast -- a new perfume...
...Westerner who doubts that things are changing in the Soviet Union, Tengiz Abuladze's Repentance will come as a shock. The 2 1/2-hour film, which was first released in Moscow a year ago and opened in the U.S. last week, is a powerful denunciation of the Stalinist-style police state and all its horrors: personality-cult paranoia, official corruption, institutionalized mendacity, arbitrary arrests and executions, dehumanizing labor camps. That Abuladze was ever allowed to make this film is remarkable. That it has been shown to millions of ordinary Soviet citizens, many of whom greeted it with standing ovations, is astounding...
...Shock, despair, terror and anger grip the Caribbean nation after goon squads abort balloting, leaving at least 50 civilians dead and raising troubling questions about army complicity. -- Polish voters reject a government- proposed program of economic reform and austerity. -- With the U. S.- backed rebels gaining, the Soviets seek a quick exit from Afghanistan...