Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overcome a lot of barriers," Rodriguez says. "Financial barriers, familial barriers. It wasn't culture shock. I just...
...fact is that the crash of the stock market did not change people's desire to be rich or their belief that money brings happiness. What the expanded indulgence in luxury goods indicates is that the financial shock only reduced confidence in the paper money of Wall Street and increased society's faith in tangible items, especially as an indication of social status. The value of a Rolls Royce doesn't fluctuate when stock values flash on a computer screen--and you can always drive...
...formerly hennaed in the salon of Moscow's exclusive International Hotel, match the brilliance of Nancy's, which is touched up with Clairol's Moongold and Chestnut? Will the Soviet First Lady return to the gold-lame sandals she wore in London in 1984? Will the American First Lady shock the world by wearing red, her favorite color, in Red Square...
Judge Annich refused to treat the matter as a simple "undergraduate frolic that got out of hand" and professed shock that "no one had the ability, desire or guts to intervene." Denouncing the sentences as "totally inappropriate," Defense Attorney Kim Otis claimed that his clients, Kenneth Simpler, 20, and Lisa Napolitano, 21, the president and social chairman of the Princeton Charter Club, had been unfairly singled out as scapegoats. Princeton's President Harold Shapiro, while condemning the drinking incident, also criticized what he called "disproportionate and excessive" sentences...
Perhaps that is a good thing for the rest of us. The record has the shock of sudden intimacy and of irrevocable disruption, in great part because Childs often found herself singing Ricketts-inspired songs straight across the control room to the inspiration himself. Ricketts provided bass, guitar and synthesizer support and worked closely with Childs and Producer David Tickle on the album's overall production. "David helped me understand the groove," Childs says. His presence, and his occasional prodding, also forced her to struggle hard with her own feelings. "In Let the Rain Come Down, that person...