Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...utter shock...
...Pearl Harbor was a shock. Now Britain's fight was our fight," says Friedburg. "We wrote letters to newspapers, talked to groups and to senators, and we brought students to Harvard from Czechoslovakia...
...Kennedy assassination was the first majorpsychic dislocation, the first political shock, ofthe '60s. So many followed. And yet I rememberthat time as one of shining optimism, of highenergy; most of us felt we could change the world(an attitude I never detect in my children'sgeneration...
...important turnoffs, say researchers at the Centers for Disease Control. Forty- four states and the District of Columbia now restrict smoking in public places, and many non-smokers are no longer shy about telling friends and co- workers to snuff it. But the biggest factor may be sticker shock. A pack of < cigarettes went for 23 cents in 1955; the average price last year...
...figure painting as tableau is exchanged for that of outright drama: deep, dark backgrounds and narrative light picking out the hierarchy of character; turbulent crowd scenes; an eye for all classes, from cobblers to kings; a vast range of expression in the faces and gestures; moments of shock (the blade grinding into the clumsy giant's eye in The Blinding of Samson ((1636)) has the same appalling impact as the blinding of Lear) alternating with passages of the most lyrical eroticism, reflectiveness, inwardness. Then, too, there are the shifts of language, the rough and the smooth, and the long series...