Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of Jones' oeuvre is no more specifically black in theme and context than that of, say, his younger contemporary Mark Morris is explicitly white. Like Morris, Jones has a gift for campy comedy and a capacity to shock -- offstage as well as on. Some of his dances feature transvestitism, topless females and full frontal nudity by both sexes. Last summer during a fund- raising performance, Jones dropped his pants and exposed himself while standing near two children. He later apologized to outraged parents, explaining that he was trying to test the boundaries of propriety...
That same year, however, saw the first of the diseases to come--with the outbreak of Lyme disease. Legionnaire's disease emerged in 1978, toxic-shock syndrome in 1978, AIDS in 1983, and chronic-fatigue syndrome in 1985, to name a few. Malaria re-emerged. Today, dengue and yellow are spreading. Instead of improving, the virulence of disease seems only to have entered a new stage...
...this comes as a shock to Nagla's father, Hamza Sayed Eid, who told police he had never heard of CNN and claimed that he thought he was participating in a documentary on Islam. He also finds the uproar bewildering. As a Muslim, he believes he acted properly...
...strep, the sheer volume of disease-fighting immune cells can overload blood vessels, ripping tiny tears in the vessel linings; toxins can also damage the vessels directly. Plasma begins to leak out of the bloodstream; blood pressure drops, organs fail, and the body falls into a state of shock. In cholera, bacterial toxins attack intestinal cells, triggering diarrhea, catastrophic dehydration and death...
...named Darryl, 27. "It's going to get worse than this." Just before Shavon Dean was killed, there had been night after night of AK-47 sprayings. The neighborhood is quiet now, Darryl explains, only because of the police and media attention. Still, the community is in shock and in mourning over the 11-year-old killer and his 14-year-old victim. "He was the baddest of bad," says Jeffrey Rowry, a local resident, "and she was the sweetest of sweet." In silent protest against the gangs, yellow ribbons have been tied around the trees on Shavon's block...