Word: gasp
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...film opens, Daddy (Johnny Hallyday) is away on business, or as the film chooses to call it, "in the hospital losing his spots." In what is probably the greatest shock of his life, son finds out in school that mama has lied. Daddy, it seems, is really in prison (gasp...
...mile-long line outside Lenin's Tomb, old women sweeping courtyards with twig-bundle brooms, faded red signs proclaiming VICTORY TO COMMUNISM. But beneath the capital's seedy, socialist exterior there is an unaccustomed hum of excitement. Passersby pore over posted copies of Moscow News, marveling at articles on (gasp!) official corruption and incompetence. Once banned abstract paintings hang at an outdoor Sunday art fair. In public parks and private living rooms, families plan futures that many believe will be better, richer, freer than ever before. To the delight of many Soviet citizens -- and the dismay of others -- their country...
Those racy British tabloids love rowdy stories about the royals. Now they have a new topic of gossip: Di' s marital fidelity (gasp...
...year marriage to Prince Charles, she has been reported pregnant countless times, has spent a king's ransom on clothes and was anorexic. Lately, however, British papers have been feasting on an unusually large banquet of negative stories about the younger royals, including once unthinkable innuendos about (gasp!) Diana's marital fidelity...
Trebelhorn is not an inflexible headmaster. His normal rules include neckties on team flights, the announcement of which brought a gasp. O.K., he said, "start the year with ten wins in a row, and we'll all lose the ties." When the tenth victory came against Texas, the Brewers unbuttoned their collars and sighed dreamily, "Just...