Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many are appalled at what they find: treachery by friends, parents, brothers, sisters, spouses -- some 200,000 "unofficial co-workers" in all. The custodian of the files, Joachim Gauck, warns former citizens of the east to "think twice before applying -- the shock could cause family catastrophes. One should look deeply inside oneself before making this decision...
...fact, The Deep End possesses a fairly suspenseful plot--it is billed as a "psychological thriller"--and Crutcher makes it believable by drawing upon his experiences as a therapist for abused children. He uses shock value to interest his reader, relying on the same brand of nauseating descriptions as Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs...
...plot explores how the sins of the fathers are transplanted to sons and how past events recycle. Although the art that one generation deems revolutionary may seem banal to the next, the liberal themes of Ghosts shock modern audiences like liberal themes in the Victorian era shocked audiences then...
...Russia, where basic institutions like a central bank hardly work. In December, Sachs and several foreign economists met twice with Yeltsin, who told them that studies he and his advisers had made of other economic reforms from Poland to Chile had led them to conclude that nothing short of shock therapy could rescue the Russian economy...
...driving people into the & streets. Last week he called the Russian situation "politically very risky." But he says the slower approach that Yeltsin's critics advocate will only prolong the agony without providing the benefits of a market economy. Sachs notes that in cases like Bolivia and Chile, where shock policies have worked, it took about five years "to make the changes so widespread and visible that they became self-sustaining." But will the Russian people -- and their politicians -- have that much patience...