Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What appears inevitable is that the outrage will die down, the shock will subside and things will return to normal. And given the prevalence of rape on college campuses and the silence that keeps it hidden, that is exactly what should scare the hell...
Daily Spin "It was going to be difficult to overcome the shock value when the jury heard the words 'bubonic plague' and realized it was being sent through the mail." ?-Attorney George Luther in June 1997, on the 11th-hour decision of his client, anthrax attack suspect Larry Wayne Harris, to plead guilty to wire fraud...
Sevilla responded to the tragedy with shock and outrage. There were demonstrations in the street, long marches with banners and posters asking for peace. Children and old people, as well as torrents of students, sang stirring or mocking songs and chanted as they walked down the central avenue in front of the cathedral...
...Nagano has been renowned as a temple town, home to one of Japan's most ecumenical Buddhist centers, Zenkoji, a 40-structure complex set against the mountains. The cypress-roofed temple is the city's center of gravity, marked on all the highway signs. Zenkoji announces itself with the shock of pounding drums, the smell of burning incense, the flutter of white-paper prayers. Somewhere inside its main hall is what is said to be the first Buddha image ever to arrive in Japan, so precious that only a replica is displayed once every seven years...
...obscured by discreet asterisks. In the U.S., where the ethics of oral sex is now bandied about on the evening news, the full obscenity has been restored, thus preventing most publications (including this one) from printing the play's name. But Shopping and F______ is more than just a shock-provoking title. The play opens with a character vomiting, assaults us with rough language and features brutally graphic scenes of sadomasochistic sex. Ah, the magic of live theater...