Word: shock
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...sudden massive coronary event” on the evening of December 30, 2003. Five days prior to Dunne’s death, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne had gone to the emergency room with a flu that had become pneumonia, and then slipped into septic shock. These two events and their aftermath are the primary focus of the book.Early on in “Magical Thinking,” Didion declares that “the way I write is who I am, or have become,” and this is indeed carried out in the fractured, meandering style...
...from the government soldiers. Aiming at a nearby gunman, he’s about to shoot when the target removes his helmet, revealing a boy only a year or two older than Chava himself. Chava flees. True or not, the scene seems a bit contrived, except for the genuine shock and horror on Chava’s face.As it turns out, Carlos’s look of shock is genuine. Without telling him, Mandoki dressed the actor’s older brother in fatigues and put him in the scene as Chava’s target. Expecting...
...doubt many readers are as disgusted as I am by China's use of coerced sterilization and abortion. But perhaps we should temper our shock by recognizing that China, with more than 20% of the earth's population, has a real and extremely serious population problem for which there may not be any painless or entirely humane solutions. The Chinese have a collective cultural memory of famine and mass starvation. We need to be aware of the reasons and rationale for China's population-control policies. John Coffee Marietta, Georgia...
...endeavor. Every-where you look there are $1,200 handbags with exotic gewgaws like padlocks or python patches or chain-link straps. There's nothing wrong with success, of course, but people can stay excited about handbags for only so long. Every now and then, designers need to send shock waves through the fashion system, if only just to keep its heart racing. And in Paris the real designers did just that...
...Elvin Jones--at the height of its powers. The highlights include Coltrane's signature standard My Favorite Things and the 27-min. title track, which features Coltrane at his most febrile, burning through registers in a controlled fury. To listen to these sessions is to experience some of the shock and awe that Coltrane induced in audiences at the time. After witnessing one of Coltrane's gigs at the Half Note, Miles Davis asked, "What is that he's playing?" Trane still inspires wonder...