Word: astonishment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...station breaks now last 30 seconds, not long as man reckons life. But into this eyeball-probing half-minute, commercials are stuffed with a vigor that would astonish even a sausage maker. The networks give this half-minute to local stations to keep them happy and affiliated, and the stations often slice it up into 10-and 20-second blocks, and sometimes-although they are not supposed to do this-they sell it in three 10-second blocks. Sometimes the local stations will snip an additional 10 seconds off network time without permission, and sell that too. Thus...
What happens is just what the husband expected. Young Kimura becomes interested in the wife and she in him. This in turn makes Papa jealous to the point where he performs sexual feats that astonish even his wife. The daughter, of course, catches on soon enough, and by now her jealousy of her mother has made them enemies. When the mother begins to rendezvous with her daughter's young man, the four are catastrophically enmeshed in feelings of lust, outrage and jealousy that swiftly reach a point of no return...
...beholder ever supposed to know just what Dubuffet's images were supposed to be. "I am pleased," he said, "to see life in trouble, going insane-hesitating between certain forms that we recognize as belonging to our familiar surroundings and others that we do not, and whose voices astonish...