Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer. Time for Soviet workers weary from the rigors of perestroika to enjoy the sun and surf at their favorite beaches. This year, however, Soviet vacationers received a rude shock: from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, ; signs warned bathers to swim at their own risk because the water was polluted...
...surf by the floating filth, it was as if something precious -- their beach, their ocean -- had been wantonly destroyed, like a mindless graffito defacing a Da Vinci painting. Susan Guglielmo, a New York City housewife who had taken her two toddlers to Robert Moses State Park, was practically in shock: "I was in the water when this stuff was floating around. I'm worried for my children. It's really a disgrace." Said Gabriel Liegey, a veteran lifeguard at the park: "It was scary. In the 19 years I've been a lifeguard, I've never seen stuff like this...
...with which, at L'Estaque in the south and the village of La Roche-Guyon outside Paris, Braque dug himself into and then out of Cezanne. Nor does it have the clumsy but crucial Large Nude of 1908, in which he struggled to make sense of the shock of first seeing Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. There is, however, the marvelous 1909 Harbor in Normandy -- a seascape of vectors, in which hulls, spars, water and sky are made of the same brown-and-blue prismatic substance, buckling in shallow space...
...film chronicles the life of "Diana Roth" from before her internment to her release from prison under house arrest. Filled with scenes of brutal police questionings that have become so familiar to movie audiences that they have lost their shock, the film is also a vivid depiction of Roth's inner struggle...
...lofty federal projects to more nitty-gritty state and local issues. He began the summer program for state and local officials that continues with great success. Mark Moore, the specialist in criminal justice, says, "Other politicians who come in have three problems with the place. First, there is status shock. They are reduced from having their own staff to sitting in a cubbyhole." That never bothered Dukakis, who showed up on his bicycle every day. "Second is the ((graduate school)) student body, skeptical and older than the politician was expecting, often with more academic training than he has." Dukakis loves...