Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the author, everyone enjoyed the pursuit and "no scuttler was ever reported to the front office. Au contraire, the girls wore their prettiest panties to work . . . Alas, I was never scuttled." Brown professed shock that modern girls would disagree with her notions of what constitutes a playful professional pastime...
...that decision might sound like a bit of self-justifying commercialization, it should be kept in mind that another lively cut on Apocalypse is titled How to Kill a Radio Consultant. Radio has not bridled. Public Enemy can get away with saying what it wants, whether it's lambasting shock-effect journalism (A Letter to the New York Post) or coming down hard on black drug dealers who exploit their fellow blacks ("Got tha' nerve as hell, to yell brother man") and on liquor interests whose black-oriented sales pitches are "selling us pain." Rebirth, with its observation that...
...Harvard community reacted yesterday with shock and sadness to basketball star Magic Johnson's announcement on Wednesday that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus HIV, and would retire from professional basketball...
Some students interviewed said that after the initial shock of learning they would not be able to attend the dance, they began put their disappointment into perspective...
...Doesn't the shock of public humiliation affect these folks...