Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ashby on all charges for the killing of the 20 people in the gondola -- two Poles, seven Germans, five Belgians, three Italians, two Austrians and one Dutch. Conviction could have put Ashby behind bars for life. The initial reaction of the families of the victims in the courtroom was shock -- a sensation that will also soon rock observers and politicians across the Atlantic. ?Expect total outrage,? says TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke...
...which is more than just fun; it's a philosophy of fun," says Ressner, who has sojourned to Thailand twice before. As for his own sanuk, Ressner spent one lazy day aboard a rickety boat and another in a Buddhist temple. He says he did not suffer much culture shock until his return...
...move as a sly legal strategy for the group to negotiate a better contract with its record label, LaFace. But Watkins says the trio was genuinely broke. "We were broke like our lights were off," she says. "Broke like our phone was disconnected. Broke. It came as a shock to y'all. Not to us. We was the ones living it. So I knew the money I wasn't getting...
...General Lee Aliar, Jason Mills '99 skillfully evades our sympathies--the moment he is threatened, he turns into a shell-shock poster child and begins writhing all over the floor. He turns into a worm. Furthering this redoubling of the gender-turn as species-turn, Bryan Leach '00 plays an anthropomorphic (albeit morphologically impaired [a la Rilke's Archaisicher Torso Apollos]) dog, a stereotypical Scotland Yard scrub, who's neutered jokes wear thin, to say the least. Also included in this category is Donatello Mywife (ably, even riotously, acted by Michael Roiff '01) because he is: a) Italian...
...grown hydroponically. Heroes do not sprout through training programs. They do not blossom through a series of interviews or bloom from an advanced degree program. Instead, heroes emerge out of circumstances that call for heroism. They are often the people from whom we expect the least, the people who shock us by rising to the occasion. True heroism exists only in times of crisis...