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...Hammer, Collins argues, was "perhaps the first widely popular antihero: a good guy who used the methods of the bad guy in pursuit of frontier justice, a vigilante who spared the courts the trouble of a trial by executing the villain himself." The jolt this character gave to literature, by being both so brutal and so popular, was immediate and lasting. "We were a very puritan nation right up through the 1950s," says novelist Loren Estleman. "I think it was people like Mickey Spillane, getting out there and effectively butting his head against the wall that made those walls collapse...
...most striking painting in New Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art, India's premier collection, is up a flight of stairs, in a room on the first floor. Usually hanging in a distant corner, it gives you a jolt when it springs on you. It's a rectangular oil panel: a group of adolescent Brahmins, bare-chested and with gleaming, sacred threads dangling around their torsos, sit cross-legged against a burgundy background. One of them stares at you, one turns away, and the central figure, with a white-and-red paint mark on his forehead, looks beyond...
...Craig Kelley wants to jolt the Cambridge Public Schools system out of what he says is its long-term complacency. But he needs no jolt himself...
...sure bet is to sell and downsize to a less expensive home or rental. Refinancing into a more stable loan--like a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage--may not lower your payments, but it will give you a steady base for planning a budget and help you avoid a jolt from any further rate hikes. "It's foolish not to take advantage of the opportunity to lock in a reasonable rate given that they could still climb much higher," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research...
...Torture should be a thing of the past,” said William M. Skinner ’09, one of the demonstrators. “[Protests like these] don’t confront [passersby] or make them angry, but it does jolt them...