Word: shock
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...kind to comics like Franken and showmen like Limbaugh. "What you have," says Publishers Weekly editor Steven Zeitchik, "is the marrying of the interest in political books with the culture of celebrity." Even the noncomedians in the bunch use the tropes of comedy and show biz: sarcasm, hyperbole and shock. Britney kissing Madonna, Coulter saying we should convert Muslims and kill their leaders--hey, it's all publicity...
...Durst has displayed a bounty of personas over the years: Manhattan playboy, heir to a real estate fortune, jealous husband, fugitive and, in the opinion of some, devious killer. Durst, 60, was acquitted last week of murdering his elderly neighbor, Morris Black, in Galveston, Texas. The verdict was a shock because Durst has a history of finding himself close to people who die or disappear and because he himself described grisly details surrounding Black's demise. In court he admitted dismembering the body but said he recalled little of the horror, except that at one point he was "swimming...
Corruption scandals in India carry the same capacity to shock as revelations of a Mafia presence in Sicily. So when a videotape surfaced last week allegedly showing a government minister holding a fistful of cash to his forehead, uttering "money isn't God, but by God, it's no less than God" and promising his benefactor mining concessions, it created a stir in the press?but nowhere else. Environment and Forests Minister Dilip Singh Judeo first issued an outright denial, then resigned but maintained his innocence, then admitted accepting money but compared himself to Mohandas Gandhi, saying he needed...
...Crimson players still had to contend with culture shock as they tried to figure out what to eat on top of adjusting to the different playing styles of the European club teams...
...While Bremer finesses the political plans in consultation with the IGC, dealing with the insurgency is the province of the U.S. military, and its new approach could be dubbed "Shock and Awe II." U.S. forces are raining down everything from 500-pound bombs to satellite-guided missiles and artillery fire on houses, fields and warehouses believed to be used by guerrillas - not that the guerrillas are present at the time, it's principally a display of firepower intended to cow the resistance and its supporters into submission. To the same end tanks parade slowly through the streets of Tikrit, helicopter...