Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shock of Judy Agnew's suddenly expanded life has been little short of traumatic. Previously, her orbit had been limited, by her preference, to luncheons with the Kiwanis' Ki-Wives, the Women's Civic League and the Federation of Republican Women. Entertainment at the Governor's mansion in Annapolis often meant pocket billiards, pingpong, or an evening's placid TV watching in the basement club room...
...suddenly tilted steeples as a 1-min. quake rolled across the island of Luzon in predawn darkness, catching most Filipinos in their beds. Cracks appeared in the façades of luxury hotels in Manila, and glass panes were wrenched out of the airport control tower by the shock. A five-story apartment building in Manila's Chinese quarter collapsed, trapping 600 people under tons of rubble. At least 111 were known dead in the Philippines' worst earthquake in over a decade...
...dollars. At least three people died in the quake, and workers building the city's new subway system deep underground fled for their lives. Though many skyscrapers were badly damaged, the athletics stadium complex for the forthcoming Olympic Games came through unscathed. It was the most severe shock in Mexico City since 1957, when over 30 people were killed...
Polish avant-gardist. Grotowski argues that theater exists to shatter taboos that separate man from himself. The relentless iconoclasm of the age has pretty much destroyed religious, political and social taboos. According to Grotowski, only the human body retains an aura of sanctity that lends itself to exposure, shock and outrage...
...which she hopes will result in his selling the rights to his name. When the film opens. Paul and Chris pick up a girl; they take her to a lonely park and are attacked by a gang who rape and kill the girl, leaving Paul in a state of shock requiring intensive therapy (seventeen shock treatments) before he can return to his opulent, if tense, domestic menage...