Word: shock
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...Hollywood party on Aug. 16, 1977, word reached the celebrity revelers that the 42-year-old Elvis Presley had just died at his Graceland home in Memphis. Amid the murmurs of shock, one industry type noted, "Good career move...
...What a shock, then, to arrive in a country where the prevailing attitude vis-à-vis ethnic and cultural difference is precisely the opposite...
...they used genetic engineering to create a mouse without this crucial gene and devised an experiment to test the hypothesis. The mice were guided into a box where they would get a mild foot shock; they would react by freezing. Then they were guided into a very similar box with no shock. The altered mice would freeze in the safe box as well, and it took them a long time to figure out the difference. Normal mice figured it out pretty quickly...
...thing I've come to see is that no matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. Ruth's health had been precarious for months-in fact, she almost died the beginning of the year-so her death wasn't a surprise. But I realize now-in a way I never could have before-that a very important part of me has been taken away. My heart goes out in a new way to all those who have lost a spouse...
...blond hair and strong features that caught the camera's eye even when she wasn't center-screen, Vitti starred in five Antonioni pictures, instantly becoming their anguished or volatile face, their always human soul. She was so acute a revealer of depression, disappointment, despair, that it was a shock to see her in other Italian films as a bubbly, expert comedienne. In 1964, when Antonioni won the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for Red Desert, he paid tribute to "someone close to me who has collaborated with me courageously and most valorously. I'd like to thank her publicly...