Word: shock
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...does have, from her first entrance in a figure-hugging scarlet dress, is great physical presence. Happiest lolling on her back on one of a succession of increasingly extravagant chaise-longues, she swivels her long legs like antennae. But when she speaks, her flat, ordinary delivery comes as a shock. Only in the grim final scene, when Lulu is reduced to working as a prostitute in a London cellar, does Friel let her natural Northern accent come through and seem suddenly energized. Too late...
...exaggerated terror to a cockroach or a drop of blood, for example--may play a role. The journal Nature last week reported a study in which researchers performed scans on the fear centers of volunteers' brains and found that when the subjects were merely told to expect an electric shock, the neurological reaction to the anticipated jolt was as powerful as fears based on actual experience. "There is a lot of legitimacy to the idea that phobias can be learned," says Edna B. Foa, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. "We respond to what...
...Perhaps those numbers don't carry the kind of shock value they might have 10 years ago, when denizens of America's comfortable middle-class communities could still pretend gun violence only happened in urban (read: black and Hispanic) schools...
...Nazi death chambers. We've come a long way since then. For one thing, after another 40 years of Nazi-era dramas, documentaries on the Holocaust, debates over the responsibility of the German people, and "Schindler's List," there's not much about the tragedy that can shock us anew. Or is there...
...There's a point - and we've been waiting for a while - when investors just accept that this bad earnings news isn't about the company, it's about the economy. And then you start applying that to all your estimates, and reducing expectations, and bad news doesn't shock the markets anymore...