Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adult physical passion and adolescent instability. Miss Presle, a beautiful and sincere actress, appears convincingly confused as she depicts the feelings of the subjugated bourgeoise. Excellent support is given the stars by the tender performance of Jean Debucourt as the father of the school boy, by the well portrayed shock and righteous indignation of Denise Grey as the young bride's mother...
...ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater. Leaning back behind his cluttered desk in Manhattan this week, he spoke enthusiastically of his longtime friendship with impresarios Morris Gest and David Belasco...
...investigation is planned or necessary concerning the accident in the Vanberg Laboratory Friday, in which Peter L. Hisbury 3G died of an electric shock, Emory L. Chaffee, director of the Laboratories of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, said last night...
Harbury's colleagues were puzzled that the relatively mild shock he received killed him. "Many of us have taken greater shocks," Chaffee said. Harbury bad only a slight burn on the finger and he wasn't held to the line at all. There was just a flash...
Covent Garden's 24-year-old Producer Peter Brook had warned that his new Salome "is not a production; it's an hallucination." A superconfident, baby-faced wonder boy who likes to shock, Brook had looked for a designer for the Royal Opera House's first Salome of its own since 1936 who could "reflect visually both the cold, fantastic imagery of Wilde's text and the hot eroticism of [the late Richard] Strauss's music." In mustached Surrealist Salvador Dali, he thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans...