Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally decided to do it: After months of planning, you're at last making the big trip Home, You've packed your bags and you've got your tickets. But are you prepared for the culture shock you might encounter...
...billion endowment. Because Home is an emerging capital market, only the most cosmopolitan regions of Home have confronted modern technological progress. Visitors who come Home expecting to maintain the same lifestyle they have led in more advanced parts of the world will soon find themselves confronting intense culture shock and should in most cases prepare for severe withdrawal from e-mail...
That night the pain was so great that it caused her to go into mild shock. Athletic Trainer Maura McCarthy and Dr. Wilbur Boike-father of thenfreshman guard Kristen Boike-tended to Janowski and called an ambulance. She was eventually taken to Stanford Medical Center...
...matter politely, memoirs are self-serving. Still, it's something of a shock to learn that Monty Roberts' enormously popular, enormously self-approving memoir The Man Who Listens to Horses may assay out as part fiction. Call it horse puckey for the soul, if charges by Monty's younger brother Larry and others close to the author's life are to be credited. By these accounts, backed up by TIME's reporting, the stirring tale with more than 800,000 copies in print--out this month in paperback--contains an embarrassing number of seeming untruths, some harmless, others outrageous...
When Psycho first appeared, it was a shock. At first the picture seemed like a familiar Hitchcock melodrama of guilty escape: a woman, on the run with stolen money, stops for the night in a tatty motel, chats with the eccentric owner, takes a shower. And then, 44 minutes in, the movie goes a little mad. Exit leading lady, in a whirlpool of blood. New characters appear, are slaughtered or imperiled. What the hell is going on here? Audiences knew (it was one of Hitchcock's most profitable films), but the critics were annoyed, dismissive. It took a while...