Word: shock
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...first priority. One official from the National Transportation Safety Board said families have been shown videotapes from the ocean floor to help them understand the hostility and danger of the environment in which divers are working. Says TIME's Elaine Rivera: "Eventually the families will get over the initial shock of their loss, and anger will begin to set in. Then, they'll want to know who did this. So investigators are put in a difficult situation of balancing both the retrieval of bodies and the parts of the plane that could end this mystery." Rivera added that the investigators...
...keep me from coming down here," said Sultan Muhammad, who saw the explosion. "But I hope it doesn't keep other people away. The games were just starting to go smoothly, and then this happens." Others were not so optimistic about Atlanta's chances of recovering smoothly from the shock. "I'm not going back downtown," said one eyewitness. "There's no way. It's not safe downtown." "The party's over," said a man at a MARTA stop. "No one's going to want to come to the Olympics if they're going to get bombed." As they scramble...
...countryside, there was nary a green-grassed suburb. I was even more astonished by the absence of safety fencing around the steep cliffs of the mountain ranges in northern Spain. Living with a Spanish family in Leon, where I've been studying language and literature, has been the biggest shock of all. In spite of all its old stone buildings and spacious parks, Leon feels nothing like a normal (American) city. It has only 150,000 inhabitants, and life moves at a comfortable pace. Stores close at 2 p.m. for the three-hour lunch and siesta. Every night...
Ultimately, the movie only follows well-worn paths, trotting out a revelation-of-main-character's-big-secret scene, the shock-of-love-interest-at-betrayal/breathless-reconciliations scene, even a sappy speech about identity that Al Franken's Stuart Smalley could have written. After the vicious stand-up comic scene and another superbly funny nightmare sequence (again, alas, tainted with a gaseous joke or two), the movie simply gets tiresome. It's as if the movie's taking a collective funny potion now and then, having enormously concentrated effects, and then abating, painfully. Even Murphy's Buddy Love fizzles toward...
Twenty-five years ago, the Tofflers wrote in Future Shock that "a well-oiled machinery for the creation and diffusion of fads is now an entrenched part of the modern economy." A generation after their first great sermon, the high priest and priestess of futurism may finally get to practice what they've been preaching...