Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed? Yet much of the Track's success lies in the inherent shock of seeing a hefty male wrapped in a chiffon skirt dancing on point. "In Coppelia, I must be the biggest milkmaid in the world," concedes 6-ft. 2-in. Natch Taylor, 27, whose stage personae are Suzina La Fuzziovitch and Alexis Ivanovitch Lermontov...
This lurid interpretation of events in Cambodia seems designed to shock readers and increase their fear of socialism. But the Times editorial version of events is based on liberal amounts of prejudice and half-truths--they even forgot to read some of their own news coverage of Cambodia. Also, the Indochina Resource Center, a U.S. group, recently released an exhaustively-documented report, The Politics of Food: Starvation and Agricultural Revolution in Cambodia, which sheds more light on events in that country...
Thus the fact that Harvard won so decisively came as no surprise; the only real shock was that the Crimson lost even a single game, the third in John Havens's match, by a 16-15 margin. Havens won his three other games by identical 15-10 scores, however, and that was the closest MIT could...
...Marymount School chapel, where Patty made her first communion 13 years ago. But San Francisco Federal Judge Oliver J. Carter's paneled courtroom is no church, and Randolph and Catherine Hearst have traveled prodigious emotional distances to be at their daughter's side again. The first shock of the kidnaping, the pain of Patty's taped denunciation of her parents as "pigs," the dark hours before the charred bodies of six Symbionese Liberation Army members killed in a Los Angeles Shootout were identified, and her sudden, almost unexpected capture last September-all have left their scars...
After years of shock and sorrow over the decline of morals and decency in our country, I thought I had become shockproof . . . Can you believe it: complete color films of sexual acts between women and men, including homosexual acts, using your children. Unless you and I act today . . . our children and our children's children will be exposed to perversion so sinister that good will become evil and evil will become good...