Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms with President Clinton's latest crisis. After two full days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal ? dubbed "Zippergate" by Geraldo Rivera; "Fornigate" and "Interngate" by others ? few can yet discern whether this is history as tragedy or as farce. The mood across the country is a mixture of shock, disbelief, amusement and outrage...
Hofher has been a candidate for other coaching jobs, and according to some of the gridders, the announcement did not come as too great a shock...
...about unification, not polarization," says Quintero, noting that most of his customers are white. The line has caught the attention of entertainers like the popular R.-and-B. group Boyz II Men and retailers as far north as Massachusetts. "It'll sell out," predicts Patrick Petty, owner of Culture Shock, a funky Boston boutique that intends to carry the line...
Posters for the production advertise it as "a new vision," one which will shock those familiar with the play's often lush productions. Foley's Antony and Cleopatra's is set in the Victorian Age, and Cleopatra's Egypt is a drab bedroom furnished only with a frumpy wooden four-poster bed. Instead of flowing and exotic garments, Cleopatra and her two dowdy maidservants wear corsets and stiff, dull-colored Victorian dresses with high collars...
...great shock to all of us," said Dowling, who is also Cabot professor of the natural sciences...