Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dice. Stark, actually the ghost of Beaumont's fetal twin, who was incompletely absorbed in utero (the medical horror here is the book's only high-voltage shocker), comes to life as a cunning psychopath who, somewhat ludicrously, is determined to keep on writing. He slices up Beaumont's agent and editor and several other innocents with a straight razor, in scenes so lovingly detailed they would be called pornographic if the author had given the same attention...
...measure of the mayor's long-standing reputation for honesty that the shocker did not prevent his re-election to a record fifth term last month (though this time by a narrow margin), but he has resolved to exonerate himself. Bradley has appointed a commission to rewrite the city's ethics rules in a "clearer and cleaner" fashion, and last week told the city council, "While not a legal mistake, my decision to engage in outside employment was an error in judgment because of the possible perceptions it created; for that I accept responsibility. I assure you that this experience...
...results of Saturday's opening round were a shocker...
...real shocker came a day later, when the Bank Board announced the largest rescue in its history. It plans to merge eight nearly moribund Texas S and Ls -- including Dallas' Sunbelt Savings, which lost $1.2 billion in the first three months of 1988 alone -- into one financial organization with assets of $6.9 billion. The Government will provide $2.5 billion of aid initially and possibly as much as $5.5 billion over the next ten years. Although the Bank Board had several offers to buy all eight S and Ls, it determined they were in such bad financial and legal shape that...
...extending the range of Iraq's Soviet-made Scud-B ground-to- ground missiles so they could reach Iranian cities. Between February and April, in the so-called war of the cities, Iraq launched 160 missile attacks on urban areas in Iran, terrifying the civilian population. The other shocker was Iraq's use in March of chemical weapons at Halabja, in northern Iraq, which severely demoralized Iranian troops, even though the main victims were rebellious Kurdish residents of Iraq...