Word: shock
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...first popular Cuban rap groups was Orishas. In a nation that has long moved to the pulse of son and salsa, the upstart group delivered the kind of musical shock that young Cubans may one day remember with the same fondness that American baby boomers feel when they recall first hearing Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode. Two years ago, Orishas introduced a new song, 537 Cuba, that transformed the stately Cuban classic Chan Chan (a universally recognized tune among Cubans, like Guantanamera) into a rollicking American-style hip-hop anthem. The song struck a chord; young fans began eagerly...
...ended up going to Ethiopia for some time doing relief work. We were so high on the idea that Live Aid raised $100 million--and then you discover years later that that's what Africa pays every couple of weeks on old loans. It's kind of a shock. I thought we'd never forget what we'd been through in Ethiopia, but you go back to your life and then those images just fade away...
Tucked inside the shock and fury was dismay at the performance of others whose job--perhaps impossible--was to prevent this from happening. There were quiet calls for the heads of CIA chief Tenet and FAA boss Jane Garvey for allowing so appalling a breach of security on their watch. And there was an equal determination to find those who were behind...
...first guitar, that his lyrics were not about anything in particular and that he despised attention from the media. Yet in truth, his demeanor was contrived to maximize shock—not unlike the Sex Pistols’ deliberate attempts a decade and a half before to shock and offend the masses by cursing on national television and donning Nazi armbands and swastika t-shirts. In reality, Cobain re-invented and exaggerated many of his childhood memories, often crafting potential answers to interview questions in his journals. His music and lyrics were intensely personal and autiobiographical, always facing multiple revisions...
...American boom of the last ten years - a boom that is now very likely to be ended by the economic shock of Tuesday?s horror - was partly built on a worldwide perception of the U.S. as a "safe haven." Its stocks were perennially headed up. Its consumers perennially spent. And most fundamentally, its Treasury bonds and dollars were rocks as stable as its government, storm-proof shelters that were sought out by foreign investors - the so-called "flight to quality" - in times of uncertainty...