Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There are explosions - smoke bombs, meant to shock and disorient - and the riot police charge, striking the protesters with canes. The monks and students fight back, and soon there is the unmistakable crackle of live ammunition - the soldiers are shooting above our heads. The monks dress their wounds and begin their march downtown. Trucks full of soldiers pursue them, watched from the pavement by eerily silent crowds. Near Sule Pagoda, trucks are jeered and pelted with rocks, and the soldiers again open fire over the protesters' heads. But as dusk approaches, the crowds disperse. The shops have been shuttered...
...umbrage" is a product of a divided American public. A thoughtful look at the issue would explore how and why dividing the electorate has become the political tactic of choice. When sarcasm as literary device becomes good enough for publication in TIME, I begin to understand why pundits, shock jocks and political-action committees own the message. In an age when conflict passes for entertainment, we have come to expect journalism to point out the car crashes for us. Please excuse my complaint - who am I to disturb the sweet music of the lyre? Who am I to point...
...prepared to say which candidates have approached him. After our interview, he relents and lets it be known that he will vote for Barack Obama in the California primary and Hillary Clinton if she's the nominee. (Well, there's a shock.) "I think there is a limited role for actors in politics," he says, "or at least for this actor." The fight has not gone out of him, but he's one world-weary 35-year-old guy. "Politics, man. It's so ugly." He shakes his head. "The Internet allows you to completely immerse yourself in the world...
...Thursday, a crowd of smashingly dressed orchestra aficionados shuffled its way into Boston’s Symphony Hall, five minutes late and snatching last-minute snacks and champagne. It took conductor James Levine bursting through the upstage door to properly get their attention. With a red face and a shock of gray hair, the elated four-year Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) veteran hitched up one pant leg, propped himself up on a stool, and struck up a promising beginning to the Orchestra’s 127th season...
...over. (He writes, credibly, that he never actually fired a shot.) Grass's memoir describes in detail the conditions he encountered in the chaotic retreat before the advancing Red Army in the closing months of the war. But the revelation of his SS affiliation came as a shock to Grass's admirers in Germany and elsewhere, because he had so unstintingly criticized his fellow Germans for failing to confront their culpability in the Nazi...