Word: awakened
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...sentiments in the audience were quickly allayed when guitarist/producer Jay O’Rourke joined Tweedy and the band for three or four encore tunes. O’Rourke, a veritable living hero among indie rockers, offered pleasantly surprised fans a few incisive, gritty guitar solos and seemed to awaken a dormant life force among the Wilco band members. O’Rourke’s unique interpretation was particularly propitious because it suggested that, with a few minor—but crucial—adjustments, Tweedy might define for himself an entirely new and marvelous musical telos...
...practice of Shinto, the Japanese begin their prayers by clapping their hands loudly to awaken the spirits reposing in the rocks and trees. A similar approach might work on students...
...Obara's women would awaken 24 or even 48 hours later, sick and disoriented from the drugs. Chloroform is toxic to the liver and can be fatal. Each of the women recounted waking up vomiting, being unable to stand, crawling on her hands and knees to the bathroom. Few had any idea what had happened. Obara would sometimes dress them back in their own clothes before they regained consciousness. Then, he would always have a story. He told one woman: "You are such a fun girl. You drank an entire bottle of vodka." He told another there had been...
...they earned its sympathy with the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan. The old villains were now victims; those damaged faces seized the heart with the same violent poignancy as the corpses at Auschwitz. From this collective sorrow and guilt, two genres were spawned. In the Godzilla movies, atomic blasts awaken a prehistoric monster (and he still hasn't gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon. The glistening sand on the skin of the lovers...
...even today, when the worst pain is usually a headache after patients awaken, some say they are coerced into electroshock and lied to about it. "The doctor told my family it was an absolute cure for depression," says Juli Lawrence, who underwent electroshock in 1994. But the following week she attempted suicide. She says her doctor also failed to warn her about the memory loss usually associated with electroshock, which can range from forgetting where you parked your car to forgetting that you own a car at all. The memory loss is often temporary, but not always. (A 1999 Surgeon...