Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nchez's declaration was a shocker on a number of counts. When he took command of the Governor's palace, La Fortaleza, Sánchez was eager to carry on his predecessor's social and economic development programs. He was just as anxious to end the Latino tradition of one-man rule in Puerto Rico. He set out to make the Popular Democratic leadership more popular, more democratic and younger; inevitably, he made enemies...
...next shocker and the meet clincher came in the 200-yard breaststroke. Harvard's sophomore star Bill Chadsey ranked a clear favorite to beat Yale's Jerry Yurow, but the Harvard backup men were, as usual, inadequate. Harvard had to sweep the event. The score stood at Harvard 40 Yale 39 going into the breaststroke with only the freestyle relay to go. The relay was Yale's as the exhausted Crimson freestylers could do no more. Only eight points--a first and a second in the breaststroke--could have the meet...
Berserk is the ninth inexpensive pseudo-shocker ground out since 1957 by Producer Herman Cohen, who first dis.-covered the gold in those chills with I Was a Teenage Werewolf. "I made Berserk for the same reason I made Werewolf," said Cohen. But why did Miss Crawford make...
...percussive force with which he pits his antagonists against each other; as he records the radical shifts in their emotional climate, the changes can be felt like heat or sleet. Blade of Light is both more powerful and more controlled than Hard Rain Falling. A calculated, mood-ridden shocker, it is that relatively rare product in contemporary fiction: a strong second novel...
Even so, no company can long endure without a Carmen on its list, and last week, after six years' absence, Bizet's supple shocker returned to the Met in a new production. The Carmen was Grace Bumbry, a Negro mezzo-soprano from St. Louis; her Don Jose was Nicolai Gedda, a Swedish-Russian; the Escamillo was Justino Diaz, a Puerto Rican. The conductor was Zubin Mehta, an Indian from Bombay who now conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic-and who last week touched off a furor by denying that he was the least bit interested in conducting...