Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called The Show, the After-Party, the Hotel, and the female quartet Xscape, with a new album called Off the Hook. Love songs aren't enough for these groups; they sing lust songs, exploring sweaty emotions rather than sweet ones. Their songs aren't designed to shock listeners, like Madonna's; instead, in casual language they turn common sexual experience and longing into music. "My mom asks me, 'Why do y'all sing about so much sex?'" says Jodeci's Dalvin (all the group's members go by their first name or nickname), whose father is a church pastor...
...review in the New Hampshire Gazette describesthe nudity in "Under Ice" as "nothing prurient.Nothing to shock the sensitive...
...underscore the argument that "the White House certainly had reason to worry about the Department of Justice search of Vincent Foster's office." Banking Committee member Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) countered that any mistakes by administration officials in the aftermath of Foster's death were due to the "emotional shock they had experienced." TIME's Suneel Ratan notes that in his testimony today, Hubbell made "a calculated effort to support the White House line. What they're trying to show is that, at worst, they were bumbling, but that it does not amount to a conspiracy to obstruct...
THERE ARE MYRIAD WAYS TO GET AROUND the estrogen question. A woman can use herbs, vitamins and a positive mental at titude. A woman of my age (40) cannot remain ignorant of the "horrors" that lie ahead. But I wear my vivid shock of silver hair front and center. I survey my body with honest appraisal and admit that I don't look like I used to. And though faced with incontrovertible evidence that I have become "a woman of a certain age," I wouldn't be younger for anything or anyone. I am proud of what the years have...
BENETTON Its shock-value ads get a shock of their own: Germany bans them for exploiting suffering