Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother had taken him and his brother out riding in a horse-drawn buggy, and the horse turned a corner too fast on the way home. The boy fell out. A buggy wheel ran over his head and inflicted a deep cut. "I must have been in shock," Nixon recalled later, "but I managed to get up and run after the buggy while my mother tried to make the horse stop." The only aftereffect, Nixon said, was a scar, and that was why he combed his hair straight back instead of parting it on the side...
...violence is a state of consciousness, then the only "art" which that state might learn by, that age might learn by, is that which might shock it into attention, which would range widely over the field to show there is no exit from its endlessness except death--that only 'death' can 'save' its poor subjects...
...have taken pains to describe the whipping process in all too excruciating detail; the prisoner is tied to a post, bare except for pads protecting his groin and kidneys, and whipped by a martial arts expert, The first blow breaks the skin and may send the prisoner into the shock. The rest are sure to leave permanent scars and magnify the damage proportionally...
...every black writer; he was a black writer -- or, as he might prefer, a writer. And, for some blacks, he was guilty of having allowed himself to be praised by white critics. In the '60s, when the civil rights sing-along gave way to Black Power shock therapy, Ellison found himself overshadowed by more urgent novelists, such as Richard Wright (Native Son), who played Malcolm X to Ellison's Martin Luther King Jr. Ellison compiled two volumes of trenchant essays but never finished his second novel, on which he worked for four decades. Joe Fox, his editor at Random House...
...music for the squeamish -- or even the optimistic. Meshing the angry nihilism of punk and heavy metal with the synthetic sheen of techno, The Downward Spiral is a 14-song, 65-minute howl of somebody falling into the void. What keeps it from being just another nauseating exercise in shock rock is the intelligence and creative force behind its dire sound. On March of the Pigs, for example, layers of shifting static are suddenly broken by a lyrical piano riff that blooms like a flower through cracked pavement before the wall of noise crushes it again...