Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, the much-criticized BGLTSA postering campaign during Coming Out Week aimed to shock all decent students, but none so much as Christians. Posters like "Every Tenth Jesus is Gay," "St. Sebastian: the first fag in the military" and "I praise the good Lord with my wet, quivering clitoris," could serve no other purpose besides insulting and intimidating the faithful. But as disgruntled undergraduates, prospective students and bubbly tour groups milled through the Yard, the signs remained. If gays were to face the abuse they heap indiscriminately on Christian students, one would not expect similar docility...
...Being John Malkovich is wack. And I don't mean that it's incomprehensible--like Mission Impossible or The Thin Red Line. The movie is so deliberately logical and well thought out that you find yourself nodding with your mouth wide open in shock. (You gotta love Spike Jonzes. First came that prank he pulled on the MTV Video Music Awards as a slightly retarded "dance troupe" leader, then came the scene-stealing in Three Kings and now prancing Malkoviches! He might single-handedly move us out of the Adam Sandler/Farrelly Brothers gross-out comedy era.) Critics are comparing...
...this idea seems shocking to you, remember that self-segregation is not always taboo at Harvard. It often seems that minorities room with at least one roommate of the same ethnic background. It mitigates the shock of being thrown into a mostly white environment...
...Booey for the King of All Media and his Queen: lustful radio shock jock HOWARD STERN and his wife ALISON are separating after 21 years, ending one of the most curiously enduring of public marriages. Stern regularly used Alison as on-air fodder, moaning about their sex life--she'd been known to call up and rebut him--and once hurtfully joked about Alison's miscarriage. Yet through all the stripper interviews and hearty rounds of Butt Bongo, the professional lech vowed he was faithful to his wife, portrayed in his autobiography and 1997 movie Private Parts as a dedicated...
...apparently coming to the same conclusion. Outpost is going ahead with a less jarring ad. Technology supersite Cnet, which made a splash with an ad featuring a man's visit to the proctologist, is altering the course of its $100 million attack, opting for a clear message over shock value...