Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then segueing into the release of laughter. She finds the right detail: the raped child from the shacks eyeing an exquisite carved bouquet on the banister as she struggles back downstairs; dogs sniffing at a patch of the mother's burnt skin scraped onto the sidewalk. Her dialogue can jolt the audience with the unexpected, sometimes twice within a few words: just after her rape, the girl regains pride by scorning childish pleasures, saying she feels she is "a woman now -- an old woman." And she utterly avoids self- pity. Instead this unforgettable play is steeped in the writer...
...Cape Fear, written by James R. Webb and directed by J. Lee Thompson, Robert Mitchum played Cady, and much of the movie's repellent jolt came from his look and bulk. Lounging on a street corner with his X-rated face, smirking at the fragile innocence of the lawyer's young daughter, he was a case study of "lewd vagrancy." Leaning his bare-barrel torso into a cringing Polly Bergen (the lawyer's wife), cracking a raw egg in the air and then wiping the semen-like yolk from her shoulders and breasts, caressing her, undressing her with his syrupy...
...remember 1952 experienced a sharp jolt of deja vu 35 years later during the Iran-contra hearings of 1987. When the Reagan Administration nominated Lieut. Colonel Oliver North as its designated fall guy, North's brilliant attorney, Brendan Sullivan Jr., had his client not only boldly defy Marine Corps protocol by appearing before the congressional panel in full uniform with a chestful of decorations but also present his defense with the same quaver of voice and modicum of manly moisture in the eye that had served Nixon so well. The result was a tidal wave of Olliemania that swept...
...wrong, Saddam had one thing right -- that the Middle East was due for some major refurbishing. Religious hatred, excessive militarization, economic inequities and entrenched feudalism combine to make it a nasty neighborhood. The region has long been -- and remains -- violence-prone, politically archaic, oppressive. The jolt of the gulf war, however, may change the physics for a moment. "Maybe the shock," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "will enable people to think afresh, more constructively." Just as the allies seized the moment to finish off Saddam's army, so too should they seize the opportunity to make lasting changes...
Alarm clocks will jolt about 6700 students from their brief vacation mode this morning, as yet another semester gets underway...