Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced a new process called "Emerge," which turned out to be a phosphorescent skeleton strung on wires and sent scurrying over the heads of the audience. In The Tingler, Castle himself appeared at the beginning to warn audiences they would receive what turned out to be-quite literally-a shock. Selected seats were wired, and when the monster was unleashed in the film certain members of the audience got a mild jolt...
...Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center. The cause was internal bleeding in the wake of sudden surgery for blood clots in his left leg and lower abdomen. It is thought that the anticoagulant drugs he had been taking had caused a tendency toward prolonged bleeding, and he went into shock. His family gathered round in vigil, their photographed faces masked by now familiar anguish. President Gerald Ford sent red roses to his predecessor and offered prayers on Nixon's behalf...
...conference, Dr. Hickman said: "Mr. Nixon is doing well post-op. He's stable. He's in his room undergoing a normal recovery period. It was an uneventful procedure." Then, six hours after the operation, intensive bleeding, perhaps behind the abdominal cavity, sent Nixon into sudden vascular shock. For three hours doctors battled to restore his vital signs to normal. Said shaken Nixon Aide Ron Ziegler the next day: "We almost lost President Nixon yesterday...
...Only that shock treatment got the Harvard administrators off their corporate fannies," he said...
...tinged themes involving homosexuality, masturbation, drag parties and transvestism are set forth in mime and in music. On opening night Mick Jogger sent Kemp a basket of lilies, and the critics sent Kemp a bouquet of reviews in which outrage mingled with fascination. "I don't want to shock people," retorts Kemp. "I want to astonish them." He has been deeply influenced by French Playwright Jean Genet and Mime Marcel Marceau. "To me," says Kemp airily, "mime is not about climbing up the stairs but about what you find when...