Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps he'll shock everyone. Saturday afternoon, Restic said he was considering the ancient single-win shotgun offense--where the ball is centered into a fullhouse backfield with a myriad of potential recipients. It seems desperate...
...consternation in the Soviet Union, where the husband-and-wife couple were among the country's most honored athletes. They had vanished at the end of a four-week exhibition tour of West Germany and Switzerland. When it was reported that they had requested political asylum in Switzerland, shock waves struck Moscow. Said a stunned and baffled Soviet sports official: "For sports personalities of their caliber, there are no problems. They had everything they wanted here...
...practitioners of these diverse sports are Caterina (Clayburgh), a recently widowed American opera star, and her androgynous 15-year-old son Joe (Matthew Barry). During the course of a summer singing tour through Italy, the wealthy mother and the spoiled boy carry on a tortured relationship that might well shock the cast of La Dolce Vita. Obscene screaming matches and violent brawls quickly give way to grueling sequences featuring heroin injection and masturbatory sex. The film's dramatic structure is built around the secrets the characters keep from each other: there is more than one Oedipal affair in Luna...
...cast. The May 2 meeting revealed Hanoi's conviction that it was so close to victory that it no longer needed even the pretense of a negotiation. Our action had to provide a shock that would give the North pause and rally the South...
...necessary. I favored resuming bombing over all of North Viet Nam, but using fighter-bombers over populated areas north of the 20th parallel. Haig favored B-52 attacks, especially north of the 20th parallel, on the ground that only a massive shock could bring Hanoi back to the conference table. Nixon accepted Haig's view. I went along with it-at first with slight reluctance, later with conviction. For Nixon and Haig were, I still believe, essentially right. We had only two choices: taking a massive, shocking step to end the war quickly, or letting matters drift...