Word: shock
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Anyone who goes to Australia thinking he speaks the Queen's English is in for a shock called "Strine," meaning Australian-the cockney-like vernacular that most Aussies spout. Through the mysterious medium of Strine, magic comes out mare chick, a terrace house is a terror souse, house-proud is assprad, and sacks of potatoes are sex apertaters. Such metamorphoses particularly baffle Australia's many visiting Asian students, who arrive Down Under speaking textbook Hong Kong or Pakistani English, only to confront linguistic anarchy on their very first gloria sty (glorious day) in the country...
...talking about Prosper Mérimée's original Carmen story, which is tough as a documentary film. We decided to go about ten times as far as Rodion Shchedrin did in The Carmen Ballet that's being played to death nowadays. We wanted to really shock and mortify the opera crowd...
Diary's hapless heroine is Tina Balser (Carrie Snodgress) who has a set of hang-ups that might shock Mary Worth. Jonathan, her lawyer husband (Richard Benjamin), is an Ivy League cretin who announces to their children at the breakfast table: "Your mother made Phi Beta Kappa at Smith, but I don't think she can make a four-minute egg." This sort of thing is hardly conducive to connubial bliss, so Tina tends to get turned off when Jonathan yearns for a "little old roll in de hay." She begins a passionate "sex thing" with a surly...
Sometimes it takes a shock. Howard Samuels, who made his millions in the plastics business, is full of reformist ideas partly gained from family policy meetings with his eight kids, aged eleven to 27. Last winter, while campaigning...
...unpopular devotional accessories as rosaries and statues, simply went out of business, thus depriving publishers of one of their major outlets. Rapid developments in theology compounded the problem, often outdating books before they appeared. Eventually, the tide of reform following the Council produced a reaction among traditional Catholics-a shock manifested by their rejection of publications that brought them the discomfiting news...