Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pier Paolo Pasolini was, then, a political phony, a mediocre poet, an opportunist filmmaker capitalizing on the Roman desire for circuses with lots of blood and sex, and if his death was such a senseless piece of violence--why all the fuss? Was the shock expressed by all Italy, and especially Rome, merely political propaganda of the PCI, melodramatics of the intellectual elite, and bloodthirsty scan-dalmongering on the part of the greater public? Of course all this contributed to the clamor, but there was something else behind the strong reaction of the students who marched through Rome in mourning...
Pornography is hard to find. Topless and bottomless dancing are strictly forbidden. Thus it came as an extraordinary shock when a county grand jury indicted Cincinnati Police Chief Carl V. Goodin, 42, the commander of the vice squad and six other cops last month for charges ranging from bribery and extortion to perjury. At the same time, Larry Flynt, paunchy publisher of the raunchy new skin magazine Hustler, was indicted on charges of bribery and sodomy. Last week the grand jury reconvened, and still more indictments are expected...
Tremendous Shock. "People were kind of horrified," declared City Manager William Donaldson. Goodin and the six other indicted police officers were suspended without pay. Although not linked publicly with any wrongdoing, Deputy Chief Embry Grimes and a district captain abruptly resigned. "It has been a tremendous shock to the city," said Mayor Bobbie Sterne. The grand jury is expected to hand up many more indictments, involving a number of officers as well as some civilians...
...Triangle Paper on the problem of international consultations argues for improved consultative procedures through which governments would face difficult issues early, informally and without drama. This would "lessen the shock of sudden action and minimize embarrassment to a friendly state...
Suddenly, with the shock of a sharp right punch coming out of nowhere in the Philadelphia slums, Rocky becomes an astonishingly uplifting film that asserts that the American dream has been reborn. Rejecting the recently all-too-tempting directors' urge to make films about antiheroes who are as corrupt and malicious as the systems they fight, director John G. Avildsen has probed the boxing world to tell the all-American story of Rocky who jumps from obscurity to the lights...