Word: shock
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...MASH had the shock of the new. With its boisterous camaraderie, hearty and heartless, the film virtually created the modern concept of hipness. It kept surfacing in the overdog comedy of National Lampoon and Saturday Night Live and David Letterman and Spy magazine, in the stoned bravado of Bill and Ted and Beavis and Butt-head. (The Bill Murray persona, of blithe sarcasm and weary soldiering-on, could have been invented by Altman; it's a shame the two men never made a film together.) Amid the triage of Korea - read: Vietnam - Altman's super-cool medics found fraternity...
...Team Xbox also knows about your iPod. You plug it directly into the Xbox 360 to play any tracks but the ones you bought on iTunes. If you happen to have a Zune, you may plug that into the Xbox 360 as well. It won't shock you to hear that when I plugged the iPod and the Zune into one of the PS3's many USB ports, nothing happened. Of course, the PS3 does support music served up from the PlayStation Portable, if that's where you keep your tunes...
...living conditions and physical abuse. Beginning in the 18th century, some steps were taken to make treatment of the mentally ill more “humane,” but well into the 20th century these people were still confined to asylums and forcibly subjected to terrifying treatments like shock therapy. With reason, such institutions acquired the label “snake...
...while the initial shock of the defeat was stunning—a chant of “Howl! Howl! Howl!” was heard on Longfellow Bridge—a little time has provided us with much needed perspective in facing the consequences of our loss...
...Bears scored just under seven minutes in, when Sean Dersch picked up the puck in a crowd around the net and snuck it past senior goaltender Justin Tobe, and Jeff Prough gave Brown a 2-0 lead at 14:52. “It’s a shock, but that’s been our problem,” Reese said of the two early goals. “We go down 1-0 early and we get the wind knocked right out of our sails.” The Crimson has given up goals in bunches throughout...