Word: shocker
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...record, there's another gem of a ballclub buried down at the fifth seed. It's the best team in New England, it's won two straight Ivy League crowns and it's primed to duplicate the shocker it pulled off in Stillwater, Okla. about this time last year...
...advances given to float best sellers have contributed to the publishing slump. "A $1 million advance is not a shocker anymore," says Peter Breen, managing editor of Book Publishing Report. Ironically, it was Newhouse who developed the high-price strategy, says Thomas Maier, author of Newhouse, on the theory that, as in Hollywood, the hits could carry the dogs. "He became a victim of this theory and opened the door for media conglomerates to enter the world of book publishing," Maier notes...
...morning--as long as they're ours--to arouse feelings of invincibility. And what better frame of mind for dialing one's broker and cheerfully picking up another 100 shares of Boeing or Lockheed Martin? With Saddam the Sequel possibly only days away, I guess it's no shocker that the market has hit new highs for the first time in six months...
This operetta has been a crowd-pleaser ever since its 1874 debut, when it must have been a shocker. And this production, even to judge by the number of people humming in the Symphony T stop after the show, took a great thing and made it even better...
...best job with his cover of "She's Always In My Hair," written by the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. He sings hypnotically while the backing music provides the ultimate in sublime background for a slasher movie. The movie's theme "Scream," by Master P featuring Sukk the Shocker, presents a wailing cry for help, obviously fitting into Wes Craven's attempt to bring the horror movie genre into mainstream pop culture. Most humorously, the Kottonmouth King's "Suburban Life" recreates the spirit of idiotic teenage angst that hasn't been so perfectly dealt with since the "You Gotta Fight...