Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here in Tokyo, the threats and lectures are getting stale. Japan's leaders bristle at suggestions that they are still wallowing in a gigantic pool of bad bank loans and stagnant economic numbers. They point to a plethora of rescue plans and billions of dollars earmarked to jolt the economy awake. Granted, nothing seems to have worked yet. But the U.S. intervention to bolster the value of the yen last month and a stream of editorials decrying Japan's lack of resolve have spurred Tokyo to further action. Just last week, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announced the establishment...
...Amish who belong to the conservative old order, Stoltzfus, now 24, and Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, who bears no relation to him, were charged with distributing "multiple kilograms" of cocaine and methamphetamine at town dances from 1993 to 1997. And just in case that wasn't enough of a jolt for a public that knows the Amish mostly through the movie Witness, the two Stoltzfuses' names were read in tandem with eight members of the Pagans, including "Twisted" and "Fat Head." Another Amish youth, underage and identified only by the initials C.S., was cited but unindicted...
...marriage break up. Actually, we love to see Hollywood marriages break up. It makes us feel better to know the stars' glamorous lives are actually empty, solipsistic nightmares. So when BRUCE WILLIS and DEMI MOORE announced the end of their 10-year marriage, we couldn't help enjoying a jolt of schadenfreude. The couple, who wed after dating only three months, had spent the past few years denying rumors of their breakup; they even sued the Star for a June 1997 article that predicted a nasty divorce. As the ripples of this disunion wafted through Hollywood last week, Wall Street...
...early 1960s, he rattled art culture with garish silk screens of Hollywood sirens and Campbell's soup cans, of Sing Sing's electric chair and car-crash scenes pulled from the pages of the daily papers. The jolt of the work was its off-register blear, its bright-crude colors; but more so, his icy message that the whole world was product. If everything is reducible to an assembly-line image for sale, then Marilyn, Brillo, cows, Elvis and tabloid death are all equal--and equally convertible to cash. Warhol summed up his career with the words, "I started...
Meanwhile, hoping to jolt a nearly decade-long"morass of inactivity," several Dunster Houseresidents organized the "Extra-Curricular AffairsCommittee...