Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter; both stories are masterpieces of subtlety and cunning. Other tales investigate the vagaries of love, married and adulterous, and the mystery that separates the sexes. One woman's musings encapsulate the story collection: "A knot in his mind you might undo, a stillness in him you might jolt . . . Could it be said to make you happy? Meanwhile, what makes a man happy? It must be something quite different...
Officials are concerned worried that a sharp reduction in lending could jolt the U.S. economy into a slump. Such fears were underscored last week when the Government reported that the gross national product grew at an annual rate of just 1.3% in the first quarter, down from a previously estimated 2.1%. Coming on top of a dreary 1.1% growth rate in the last quarter of 1989, the revision indicated that the 7 1/2-year-long U.S. expansion could be in deepening danger of groaning to a halt...
That has always been the role of art: to shock, not just to ratify the prejudices of the generation in power. And no jolt is greater than the shock of the new. Original styles almost always look crude and excessive: Picasso's in painting ("My three-year-old could draw better!"), Brando's in acting ("He's got marbles in his mouth!"), Elvis' in music ("Photograph him from the waist up!"), Bruce's in comedy ("Book him!"). In their first outrageousness, these artists seemed to signal the end of the world; instead, they were heralding a new one. "A creator...
...INNOCENCE MISSION: THE INNOCENCE MISSION (A&M). Pleasing, slightly spacey sounds that are tinged with '60s folk rock and psychedelia, then spruced up with shades of Joni Mitchell ("I showed him my notebook/ The underside of my soul") and a little jolt of feminism. Overwrought -- but promising...