Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceeds from a $250,000 sale of stock on Dec. 30, 1976, had been deposited in his bank. Moreover, he said, the three checks, involving interest payments on loans, had not been deducted on his 1976 tax return. "The knowledge of my innocence, however, does little to lessen the shock and anguish caused me and my family when the charge is published all over the country...
...years after Bruce died of an overdose of heroin, comedian George Carlin would safely record a nationally-distributed album on which he calmly rattled off the "seven words you can never say on television." By then, of course, the shock value had dissipated. Carlin managed to keep the words funny only by stringing them all together in one breath: "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits...
...material and audience, they share a manic energy level. Martin channels his into creating absurdity; Bruce turned his attention to pointing up absurdity where it already existed in the world. Both are funny, but Bruce's humor reveals a string of little paranoias that inhabit people's minds. Both shock, but Martin's humor includes more shock simply for the laugh value of surprise...
...rather than a formal treaty, and in arguing that if the former can only be accomplished without the latter, then so be it. He neglects to mention, however, what cutting off the lines of communication in Geneva would mean to U.S.-Soviet relations. The diplomatic tremors from such a shock could easily affect the international balance of power adversely...
...PUZZLING that Page only hints at Debby's massive conflicts between sexuality and guilt, since his freak-show depiction of her ward--filled with raving, often violent psychotic women--seems designed to shock, rather than sadden, the audience. Grotesque scenes of Debby burning her arm with a cigarette or a patient writhing with sexual frustration substitute titillation for understanding. Debby's self-mutilation horrifies us, but, ignorant of the roots of her madness, we are spared the terror of recognizing our own insecurity in her self-hate...