Word: shock
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...almost comes as a shock...
...fell 4.2%, and Hong Kong's dipped 2.5%. Eric Fishwick, head of economic research at the brokerage CLSA in Hong Kong, predicts the dismal numbers will persist. He expects GDP in Taiwan and Singapore to contract at double-digit rates this year. "We've never seen an external shock in Asia like this," says Fishwick...
...highlight” of her year. She recently sat down with The Harvard Crimson to tell us more about her career as a ballerina. The Harvard Crimson (THC): Tell me about your transition from Japan to New York, before Boston.Misa Kuranaga (MK): It was a little bit of a shock. It was definitely different. My training in Japan was very classical. Of course I knew [Balanchine’s, a famous choreographer’s] work, like Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Theme and Variations, the big stuff, but I had no idea how it should look, since I had never...
...people walking out of the theatre thinking, ‘Who do I align with?’” she says. As for the attitude of the play, she says “It’s not quite idealism, it’s not quite this shock value skepticism. It’s something else that, unfortunately, society deems as taboo.”This chaotic approach to morality will be reflected in the similarly chaotic setting of the play. For a play that has been successful in the London West End, Broadway, and as a movie...
...angry firemen and an encounter with rapper Horsedick.MPEG (sic), played by Craig Robinson of “The Office” fame. Although “Miss March” has its funny moments, most of the humor is trite and stale. The film banks too heavily on the shock value of giving screen time to the corporeal taboo, such as a pair of testicles sans penis. The film’s deus ex machina, which involves a lustful lesbian make-out session, also strikes out. The humor throughout caters specifically to its male audience, but this kind of soft...