Word: shock
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It’s the shock effect (is “fuckery” even a word?) that really carries the album along. In “Addicted,” she sings, “Tell your boyfriend next time he’s around to buy his own weed and don’t wear my shit down...
...jail, and he has two children.” James Poulos, a family friend who had known Purdy for 30 years, had come to the courthouse in the hopes of supporting Purdy yesterday. “I like him, he’s a good man... It was a shock to hear about it,” Poulos said. “He was visiting and everything seemed fine, and then five days later we get a call and learn that he is in jail.” Purdy was also scheduled for a pretrial hearing yesterday in connection with...
...occurs when these characters are all put together. Most wind up dead, and all wind up destroyed—and just to remind you, this is a comedy. Kline does an admirable job of keeping the pace snappy enough that there’s barely enough time for the shock of a given moment to register before the action has moved on. At the same time, Kline deftly slows down the action at the end for the more dramatic, but still unflinching, final scenes...
...comet—hurtled toward the Tunguska River in Siberia and exploded about five miles above the ground. Observers tens of miles away from ground zero reported that the “sky split in two,” the air became unbearably hot, and a shock wave threw people against the ground. The force of the explosion leveled 500 square miles of forest...
Residents in Cabot House’s Eliot Hall received a shock yesterday after a sprinkler pipe burst, flooding I entryway and forcing students out of their dorms for several hours. At around 3 p.m., Ajay G. Kumar ’08 was working in his second-floor dorm room when he heard a noise that became increasingly louder. “I looked out the window and saw a disgusting brown waterfall pouring down the side...of Cabot,” Kumar said. “I ran to get help from the senior tutor [Stephen H. Kargere...