Word: shock
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...happen when the Reagan Administration dealt with the younger, if less experienced, Soviet management team that has been propelled into positions of leadership by Gorbachev since he took power in March? The first-ever encounter between Shultz and Shevardnadze, whose replacement of the formidable Andrei Gromyko came as a shock to most Kremlinologists, was expected to provide at least preliminary answers...
...first two laps in perfect position just behind the early leaders with Coe right on Cram's back. Coe stayed with his younger rival through the third lap, and for a moment, at the bell for the final lap, Coe seemed to be gaining. But then Cram, whose shock of curly blond hair, perfect legs and finely sculpted features give him the look of a Greek demigod, began to turn up the burners, rolling faster and faster with no apparent strain. As the field stretched out in the last lap, he was simply flying, moving toward the front...
...Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research center: "Network program content is explicit to the point where one ABC-TV executive was quoted as saying, 'We are reaching the point of physical motion under the covers of a bed.' I can't see how the word contraceptive is going to shock anybody...
...dinner party whose host is Wetherby's favorite schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave). He strikes a spark somewhere inside Jean's loneliness. The next day he stops by, chats a bit, then puts a gun in his mouth and splatters his brains across her kitchen wall. The shock of this scene, which sends horror-show gasps through a movie house of jaded adults, also blasts the story back to 1953, dramatizing the abortive affair that the teenage Jean (played by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson) had with a young airman off to his death in Malaya. Two erotic encounters...
Coulter--who likes to shock reporters by wondering aloud whether America might be better off if women lost the right to vote--howls at the idea that she was a college feminist. But even today, she can write about gender issues with particular sensitivity. In 2002, after Halle Berry won her Oscar, Coulter said in her column, "Berry's unseemly enthusiasm for displaying 'these babies,' as she genteelly refers to her breasts, reduces the number of roles for any women who lack Berry's beauty-queen features...