Word: shock
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...This word came tripping not off of the tongue of our professor, but from a white classmate, in the midst of a comment on a joke that a slave (the “nigger” in question) told to his master. This came as such a shock to everyone not simply because of the obvious conflict between the race of the commenter and the word itself, but because up until that point, no one—neither the professor nor any other student—had referred to the slave that way. [CORRECTION APPENDED] Once the initial shockwave subsided...
...Alckmin's sudden rise - he had rarely polled more than 30% - was a shock to Lula, who believed his landmark social programs and solid handling of the economy would be enough to give him an outright win. Analysts said many voters made up their minds to vote for Alckmin at the last minute not because they like him but because they wanted more time to make a decision. Lula's refusal to participate in the debate left many voters angry, and they wanted to punish him by forcing a runoff. "People thought, why am I going to vote for someone...
...royals choose to do nothing, issue no statement, betray no emotions--which, toward Diana, are pretty rancorous. Only when Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), swept into 10 Downing Street in a landslide, gently insists that a consoling word or two might be in order does the Queen realize with a shock that she is not the most beloved woman in Britain...
...Enter Blair, who had been swept into 10 Downing Street in a landslide a few months before. Incorrigibly cheerful and gently manipulative, he keeps telling the Queen that a condoling word or two might be in order. Only then does she realize with a shock that she was not the most beloved woman in Britain. Blair has to slap the royals awake to recognize the intensity of the nation's grief and Elizabeth's need to display some herself. Blair, who has a mother about the Queen's age, becomes the son Elizabeth never had: the one she listens...
...Late Registration,” Kanye West gets overshadowed twice. Once by Jay-Z on “Diamonds from Sierra Leone,” which is no surprise—getting bested by Hova on your own album is becoming a time-honored tradition. The real shock comes less then ten minutes into the album, when West’s unheralded guest and fellow Chicagoan Lupe Fiasco puts Louis Vuitton’s top spokesman to shame. Fiasco’s not really a power hitter; he’s more about finesse. On “Touch...