Word: shocker
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...SHOCKER: RAPPER ARRESTED...
...head. What’s up with nursery rhyme in hip-hop choruses? Nelly’s “Country Grammar (Hot Shit).” “That’s Cool,” the new single by Silkk the Shocker and Trina, reminds me of a raunchier version of Positive K’s “I Got A Man”—I think it’s just the male-female call/response format...
Penn and Princeton also struggled through their non-conference schedules this year. As usual, each school played top-rate competition, but neither team pulled off the shocker this year that seemed to always happen in seasons past...
...Stingray," likened the potential fallout to the quiz-show scandals of the 1950s. The rigging of shows like "Twenty-One" led to national disillusionment and the establishment of FCC rules forbidding the fixing of competitions. But not only does this not yet look like a Charles Van Doren-scale shocker, I'm not sure whether one is even possible anymore. One reason has to do with the kinds of game shows in prime time nowadays. The other has to do with the people watching them...
When endocrinologist David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Clinic at Boston's Children's Hospital, first met Bernadette and Wayne in May last year, he found that Wayne was 25 lbs. over his ideal body weight. Then came the shocker: on the nape of Wayne's neck was a dark, velvety area, an abnormality neither Bernadette nor Wayne's grandparents, whom he saw daily, had noticed. The skin condition indicated risk for Type 2 diabetes. While Wayne didn't yet have the disease, advised Ludwig, he would need to be monitored. Wayne was so stunned...