Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...switching back to soaps and prosecutors had a dilemma: convincing the jury that they need to hear more of the same. "It's kind of a Rodney King tape problem," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "This drama has been played over and over -- there's no more shock value...
...what makes me twitch and tremble is having to explain to everyone I know why I must be back in Cambridge on the fourth of January, and watching them gasp in shock and dismay upon hearing that I have yet to complete major portions of my work for the semester. In my opinion, the simple question "How long is your winter break?" is the worst one you can ask a Harvard student. Surely I am not alone in experiencing this painful ritual year after year...
...same time, no one was hit harder by the shock wave in January than Hillary. Her marriage was on gruesome display; even if she believed Clinton's denials, she could still foresee the toll. For 22 years they had worked to get to this point, a liberated, second-term presidency with a merry economy, a contented public and the time to spend on the issues she cared about. Instead, every last dime of their joint political capital was going to have to be invested simply in surviving in office...
...Pursued by photographers on motorcycles, Monica narrowly escapes death when the car she is driving careers off the Seine river embankment and crashes into a passing bateau-mouche full of tourists. Several of them are hospitalized for le choque (shock) and, represented by American attorney William Ginsburg, file suit against Monica for le steering lunatique. Their case is eventually dismissed by a French magistrate after Ginsburg misses an important court appearance because he was giving an interview to Radio Liechtenstein...
...speak to kids about not smoking. My message was, "Nobody told me, but I'm telling you: Look what tobacco did to me." Then I'd whip open my shirt and show the hole in my neck. That's when I know I'm getting through to them. The shock of what cancer can do is the real thing. BILL MOSS Miami