Such imagery would not have been lost on viewers at the time.
The crude paint application, which left areas of raw canvas exposed, was appalling to viewers at the time.
The contemporary resonance surely startled viewers at the time, but, rather than raise eyebrows, it enlarged the sense of Vermeer's greatness.
If the film spends dramatic time on Robinson's childhood and schooling, it's because so many viewers at the time were unlikely to think of him as a regular man.
What Vidal teased out of Buckley, in the climactic moment of the debate, was the equivalent of sexual racism, the expression of a prejudice that, even if it was shared by many viewers at the time, was suddenly exposed as arbitrary, ugly, and rancorous.
Because, really, viewers at the time had us pigeonholed to some degree.
Fritz the Cat was controversial for its rating and content, which many viewers at the time found to be offensive.
The show's first episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", earned a Nielsen rating of 1.3 (980,000 viewers), at the time considered high for a cable program.
Stone said although "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" has become less shocking with time, viewers at the time of the episode's original broadcast were shocked, and some were horrified, at the idea of a living and speaking Christmas stool.
That belief proved fleeting after the show's initial broadcast on Nov. 14, 2014, averaged just 4.1 million viewers, at the time the smallest broadcast network audience of the season.
