Word: shock
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...sets Matsui apart is her frank acknowledgement of the dark personal motivations that drive her brush, often springing from the frustrations of being a woman in a Japanese art world that is as male dominated as its corporate counterpart. That sublimated struggle gives her best paintings substance beyond sheer shock value. "Sometimes I want to provoke people just to show how aggressive I am," says Matsui. "But more importantly this is purification, catharsis for me. It's my identity...
...stupid," he once wrote, and as your article revealed, he went about trying to outwit some hawks, who were always eager to wield force to resolve difficult issues of their time. I think that Kennedy would have been nauseated by the opening salvo of the Iraq war, the "shock and awe" that was such a vulgar, inhumane display of power...
...gangs hold on to traditions that originated from a desire to shock the society that had shunned them. Mongrel Mobsters bark like dogs to show appreciation or enthusiasm, and use their hands to make the silhouette of a bulldog, the totem in the middle of their patch. Some wear German World War II helmets and use the expression Sieg Heil! as a mark of approval. Black Power members, who claim closer ties to Maori culture, always wear blue, salute each other with a clenched fist and like to cry "Yo, f___in' yo!" Researchers believe the gangs were formed when...
...jokes hardly register on the shock-ometer these days; Evan Almighty, with its hundreds of comic crap-takings, has been marketed to Christian groups. The scatological jolt of Aachi & Ssipak fades pretty quickly, as viewers' jaws drop, along with their resistance, at the movie's brain-bursting visual density. Elaborate backgrounds flash by in a nanosecond. A million film references - Basic Instinct, Aliens, half of the Spielberg oeuvre and probably lots of Asian movies I don't know - collide and spawn a zillion more. Director Jo wants his picture to be hip to cultural references high and low (Diaper King...
Three months ago, I found out that my maternal aunt in her late thirties was diagnosed with stage two cancer of the lungs. This came as a huge shock because she never smokes, no one around her smokes, and our family does not have a history of cancer. The doctor says the environment might have caused it. Whatever the reason, she is now preparing for chemotherapy after taking an MRI to check if the cancerous cells have spread to her brain because she has been having blinding headaches, and a test of seven lymph nodes surrounding her lungs for presence...