Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suitor. The affair is as boring as it is trite, and, if it weren't for the audience's guilt-ridden apprehensions. I don't think they'd give it a second look. Screenwriter Jay Allen shamelessly uses the threat of the concentration camp--there is an occasional shock cut to street violence and we also see the girl's pet dog beaten by Nazi toughs--to force us to pay attention to the doomed relationship. But he fails to follow his material through to its logical conclusions, allowing the subplot to be resolved in a sentimental wedding sequence that...
Chinese hospitals and universities involve "a bit of a culture shock, something you have to get used to if you can--I could-because the physicians and professors take a back seat," Wald said. "The administrative Revolutionary Committees are chaired not by a professor--not even by a dean. In fact, they don't have deans: they have responsible persons...
Maurice has suffered a few surprises during Barbara's emancipation. Her busy evenings out (working for N.O.W.) bothered him for a while: "It was a rude shock to me how it felt to be home alone at night . . . I began to wonder how Barbara had felt when I was out to so many meetings at night." On several of the evenings Barbara is home, Maurice must vanish-she runs a consciousness-raising session there, and men are forbidden. "Sometimes," he says, "it makes me feel like a stranger in my own house." Barbara has a few reservations...
...sometimes akward transitions between them make the number as a whole seem chaotic. In this song more than any other on the side Duane's guitar is missed. There are times when one simply knows that Duane will slide into the music, and it is always a shock when it doesn't happen...
Like Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, Poe's article is obviously intended more for shock effect than literal advocacy. But it does address a question that increasingly concerns physicians: How to deal with the hopeless case? Realistically, replies Poe, "Medicine should not use silly euphemisms such as rehabilitation and convalescence for its losing patients. A marantology service could be a place where a person could die in dignity without all the pother death engenders elsewhere...