Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather conceded with a smile that such an openforum as the Lincoln/Douglas format in moderntimes would lead to a "shock to the candidate ofnot being able to say, 'My message has beenmisreported...
That may be. But the willingness to expose those inner lives from the podium is something new in U.S. politics. In 1972 Thomas Eagleton was shamed off the Democratic presidential ticket after revelations that he had undergone shock therapy. This year, in contrast, the Democrats are getting maximum electoral mileage out of their personal problems -- perhaps hoping that people will bring their inner children into the voting booths with them...
...spent two nights and two days in the river, walking but mostly swimming. I thought I was heading southeast toward Muslim-controlled Travnik. I was lost and in shock. Once I walked right into a Serb trench. They barked a question, and I said I was going to fetch water, holding up an empty canister I'd found. I just walked toward whatever the tanks were firing at, since I knew the Muslims didn't have tanks...
...Medved is on to something: the public's numbness at Hollywood's shock tactics and the reluctance of critics to attend to -- let alone defend -- Ice- T or Studs or the latest sadistic horror movie. But he doesn't know what to do with it. Instead of just isolating a disturbing tendency in pop culture, he is compelled to document it with suspicious statistics, to draw conspiratorial conclusions, to call for a return in spirit to the movies' puritanical Production Code of the 1930s -- all with the fervor of a modern Martin Luther, an angry evangelist determined to nail...
Walsh described living the subsequent days in astate of shock. He said that he was not able todrive and that he left all the vacation plans andorganization to this hostess, Paula O'Mara, anacquaintance residing in California...