Word: shock
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Americans who consider themselves sophisticated about sex may nevertheless be startled by the graphic content of The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (Grove Press; 209 pages). Not to worry. The memoir by Parisian art critic and magazine editor Catherine Millet managed to shock even the French...
...French fans sat in shock, the Senegalese crowd - many of whom were, in truth, surrogate Senegalese, Koreans wearing the yellow jerseys of the African team - bounced to the beat of Ablaye Thiam's drum. As the minutes wore down and the French still couldn't produce an equalizer, the thrum grew ever louder. "I am the heart of our team," said Thiam, pounding the instrument with a leather mallet. "Boom-boom. Boom-boom. Can you hear it? My heart is so happy today...
...victims consider Shanksville first and foremost a mass grave. When they speak of the site's future, some invoke Arlington or Gettysburg; others want their own private place to mourn. But to most, a memorial conveys a measure of finality that is still too much to bear. "The shock keeps me living in perpetual rawness," says Kimi Beaven, whose husband Alan perished on Flight 93. "As much as I would love to put my heart and mind around my husband's final resting place, I would far rather just let it be the peaceful place that it is; just...
...school year has passed since Sept. 11, though very few days have gone by that do not in some way bear its mark. After the shock there was the patriotism, and then the charges of jingoism that only grew louder as patriotic rhetoric turned into patriotic bombs during the offensive in Afghanistan. The Taliban fell but Osama was never found and while regime change is nice, it’s tough to say exactly what Operation Enduring Freedom accomplished. While the world might be a little less safe for terrorists, it doesn’t appear to be much safer...
Moby still mixes gospel samples and dance beats as he did on Play, but he does so sparingly, as if he just can't bear to deprive his faithful of some pleasure. That leaves 18's shock-of-the-new responsibilities to Moby's mouth. His early singing was pretty rough, but on Extreme Ways he bends his voice into a low growl of surprising intensity. Extreme Ways is a song about all the things Moby has--fame, fortune, parties with hot girls--and the emptiness he feels inside. Leave it to Moby to have it all, and nothing...