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...know he was 74, but it is still a shock," says Brem. "He changed medicine. He is a true inspiration and an icon...
...funny thing happened on caucus day. Those college and even high school kids showed up at their precincts; there were three times as many young voters at the caucuses as in 2004, and more than half of them caucused for Obama. In a shock to the Clinton campaign, which had counted on turning out high numbers of women voters, Obama captured more female supporters than his rivals. Both Clinton and John Edwards, who edged past her into second place, played the game by its normal rules and played it exceedingly well. But Obama changed the game. Just...
Gerald Steinberg, a strategic analyst at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, says that December's U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, which claimed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, was a "major shock" to Israel. "This disrupted 15 years of Israeli policy based on working with the international coalition to pressure Iran to drop its nuclear weapons program through sanctions and the threat of military action, if necessary. Within two weeks, the momentum of the sanctions regime to contain Iran was suddenly reversed...
Today's high prices, unlike those of the 1970s, aren't the product of a passing shock. There's reason to expect more increases over the long haul. What prices do in coming months, though, is anybody's guess...
What was at the heart of Moore's appeal? Maybe that he had domesticated Surrealism. Moore took the biomorphic forms of Surrealist sculpture and painting, detached them from associations of shock or disgust, and reconciled them to the long traditions of the human figure. Even his first more or less Surrealist work, a small stone sculpture from 1932 called Composition - which is not in the show at Kew - is one that Moore developed out of sketches of a child nursing at a woman's breast. Compare it to the grotesque exaggerations of Picasso's 1928 Bather (Metamorphosis 1), a work...