Word: shockingly
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...become the country's most popular figure. The mood of the crowds was virulently anti-government, as protesters demanded that Musharraf step down and shouted anti-army slogans - outbursts that in Lahore's state of Punjab, considered the heartland of Pakistan's armed forces, must have come as a shock to its generals. In response, according to eyewitnesses and privately-owned TV channels, the government jammed the transmission of private TV channels covering the event, cut off power supply to whole neighborhoods, shut down small hotels and restaurants along the route to dissuade protesters from sticking around, and dragged empty...
...drafting plans for Boston to secede from the union in a fit of “dirty water” driven lunacy? I took a closer look at the Herald’s front page and my mouth swung open in horror. I stood paralyzed in shock for fully thirty seconds—stiller than Mitt Romney when he’s ambushing varmints on the hunt. A paparazzi-snapped candid of a Bay State hero’s dastardly betrayal stared me in the face. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had been photographed mid-stride, smugly bedecked in a Yankees...
...asked each panelist to arrive with a list of 30 people who mattered most over the past year. And to my shock, not only did each of them show up on time, but they all brought their assignments. I got the feeling I had already accomplished something none of their high school teachers ever...
...change of setting is a time-honored way to make classic plays seem fresh. But even though this trick has been done countless times before, this weekend’s production of “The Way of the World” might shock some with the unlikeliness of its juxtaposition—this Restoration comedy has been painstakingly uprooted and set down in the middle of the 1980s. Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 directs William Congreve’s most famous play, going up in the Loeb Mainstage on April 27 and playing during Arts First weekend...
...rest haven’t played in over a year,” Yu says. Since the orchestra changes every year, each performance is different. One year, Yu says, the hydrogen balloons were stationed behind the orchestra. “The French horns were kind of startled by the shock wave. One of them actually cut his lip,” Yu says. “The balloons are on the side now.” According to the Lowell House Web site, the spring performance of the “1812 Overture” became an institution within...