Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pick me up (I was at the Hearst house again) and not ask any questions. In twenty minutes he drove up in his V.W. and a meek, frightened sinner crawled into the front seat. I tried to explain my story to him but I was undergoing culture shock and was virtually incomprehensible. When we went out with his friends later I winced at four letter words and sexual allusions, couldn't converse sensibly, and was basically a zombie. In two weeks I had been programmed into not thinking, just believing...
First came the initial shock and the sleepless nights. Randolph Hearst, by nature not given to quick and decisive action, managed to keep calm while awaiting, then struggling to comply with, the demands of the S.L.A. Catherine, his wife, genteel daughter of a Georgia telephone executive, was dumbfounded by the violence and noticeably more anxious. A devout Roman Catholic, she spent many hours in prayer. In their helplessness, the parents began to clutch at straws: two psychics were invited to the Hearsts' house in suburban Hillsborough and ran their fingers over a map of Northern California seeking "impulses...
...impedes movement-will turn back a knife attack and anything up to a .38-cal. bullet, which accounts for 90% to 95% of all handguns in the U.S. A .38-cal. cartridge, for instance, will put a dent in the Kevlar (see cut), but the knit layers absorb the shock, leaving the imprint of the weave on the slug as it blunts into mushroom-shape and then falls harmlessly away. Small wonder that President Ford was reported wearing Kevlar on the New Hampshire hustings and that 50,000 policemen already have or will soon get the new body armor...
Several years ago, Lyons told his biographer, "It would be impossible for me to leave the priesthood." And his defection would undoubtedly come as a shock to his loyally pious fans, many of whom presumably associate priestly dropouts with apostasy. Unlike many liberals, however, Lyons is following the proper rules for leaving. In his heyday, Lyons was a formidable figure in conservative Catholicism. With Schick Razor King Patrick Frawley, Lyons started Twin Circle in 1967, served as its editor and got Frawley to take over the Register in 1970. He also raised money from conservatives to buy the 77-year...
This is the upper middle class of French society, portrayed here by Claude Chabrol with harrowing humor, and its overriding principle is that no shock waves are tolerated. Just Before Nightfall, an intelligent and wholly unsparing dark comedy, concerns an advertising executive named Charles (Michel Bouquet) who murders his mistress. Charles discovers-as did Hickey, under rather more intense circumstances in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh-that what is insupportable is the weight of pardon...