Word: shock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quasi-symbolic figure of the hawk dominate the book. When the bird is finally trained, Crews' assertion that George has achieved harmony with "some immutable continuity" rings more of rhetoric than of convincing fiction. But much of the time Crews maintains the kind of control that extracts full shock value from an episode while at the same time making it seem hilarious. George's retarded 22-year-old nephew Fred, for example, falls asleep while smoking in his waterbed and somehow manages to drown. · Christopher Porterfield
...chief administrator for Harvard's affirmative action program expressed shock yesterday at the failure of the dean of the Faculty to consult all major department chairmen in setting target figures for the hiring of women and minority group members...
...many Englishmen, burdened by the tradition of austere reserve, such behavioral advice comes as a shock. "You've got to be terribly gay," orders Mrs. Woodhouse. "You've got to act like idiots." By which she means that an owner must put heavy emphasis on talking continuously. "I want to hear some inane chatter. Try to be a bit more silly...
Separated. John V. Tunney, 38, shock-haired Democratic junior Senator from California and son of Onetime Heavyweight Boxing Champion Gene Tunney; and Mieke Tunney, 38, blonde, Dutch-born beauty who dabbled briefly as a recording artist; after 14 years of marriage, three children. The Tunneys first separated last May but had quietly reconciled in September...
...long ago, freaks had the power to shock and terrify. Now, be cause they have been too often dis played they are, at best, diversions. As a gathering place for hippogriffs and zombies, as the setting for a novel, Times Square is good for horselaughs...