Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first thought was one of shock. My second one was one of sympathy. My third, and the one that still sticks with me days later, is one of unbelievable pride. I couldn't imagine having a child at this age, only to return and finish school. I don't think I have the strength or the courage to do so. But looking into Olivia's eyes, I saw in her what I had always seen in her--an intensity that I had never seen in anyone else. Even if her life hadn't gone the way she wanted...
...became, to our shock, the tutorial slackers who had to hide our books underneath the wooden table for the first five minutes of class, frantically cracking the bindings to give our tutor the impression that we had attempted the reading. We became, to our surprise, the students who actually were starting at noon their papers due at 5 p.m. We became, with reluctance, the degenerates who really did sleep through classes, waking up at 11:45 for a 10:00 class, then muttering "fuck it" before rolling over and arising just in time to catch the end of lunch...
...Obviously, Western `Goebbels' machinery tries in short runs and with shock therapy to achieve a moment effect on TV in order to provide some more points for the political top in Washington and urgently achieve some short-run criminal aim for which they need some cover in order to prevent the publicity to understand what they actually...
...Pitman remembered a woman who had let go of the underpass she was clinging to to hand off her young son. She was swept away; the son survived. For Bruce Silsby, an owner of a destroyed surplus store, reality is a simple matter of moving forward. "Yesterday was the shock of, 'I've lost everything,'" he said. "Now it doesn't matter. We can replace it." Some...
...atmospheric doom-rock sound. A clothing style evolved that was part Johnny Rotten, part Anne Rice and all black. Acolytes sometimes took an interest (purely academic) in subjects such as Satanism and blood drinking, which ensured this was one rebellion that would never enter the mainstream. In the '90s shock rockers like Manson appropriated the image and blurred the lines--until any shaggy-haired, trench-coat-wearing teen could be considered a Goth by his peers...