Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carlin at work. Rock's own act got smarter, bolder, and in 1990 he landed a job on Saturday Night Live. "At the time that Chris was coming up, the Def Comedy Jam style became the dominant African-American style of comedy," says SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. "The shock there was in the language. But Chris was going with the shock of ideas...
While I can make the trip from staid door to chic door in half an hour, Park Avenue is the proverbial world apart, providing enough culture shock to satisfy the stymied traveler...
...last year I came home an hour earlier than expected. I found my son and his girlfriend (both had just turned 15) having sex in our backyard hot tub, music blasting, drinking wine, not using birth control, in broad daylight! After the initial shock, I immediately phoned the girl's mother (a single parent with a live-in boyfriend) and asked her to come right over. I phoned her two more times during the hour it took her to get to my home (she lives five minutes away). With parents like that, it's no wonder that so many kids...
...Maybe Starr wouldn't have tried the case anyway," my wife said. "Maybe he would have turned it over to one of those deputies who've been prosecutors, the ones the White House is always accusing of having threatened suspects' grandmothers with electric-shock treatments...
Warning to high-blood-pressure patients: you must wait at least a week before switching from the hypertension drug Posicor--a calcium-channel blocker recalled earlier this month--to an alternative blocker, a new report cautions. Four patients have gone into shock--one died--after changing within 24 hours from Posicor to another drug. The quick switch caused blood pressure to plummet to dangerously low levels...