Word: shockingly
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...retired schoolmaster who paid $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh's money in a Bronx cemetery to someone who said he was the kidnappers' agent but who failed to secure the infant's return, went boating in Pelham Bay, capsized, got an icy ducking, went home to recover from the shock...
...appearance of doe-eyed shock at some of the more vitriolic statements Hitler makes in his last days is perhaps one of the least plausible elements of the film (he has, after all, been dictating notes and speeches to her for more than two years). However, it is also part of what makes the ethical problems interesting...
...product of 60 days spent with soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a.k.a. “The Gunners,” the film consists of everything from interviews to impromptu freestyle sessions, punctuated by mortar fire and MTV-style editing. The movie doesn’t quite shock and doesn’t quite awe. But it does achieve a subtler success: it captures the difference between the disjointed world of war and the smooth, clearly-labeled sound bytes of the coverage on the nightly news...
...what is most disconcerting about the photograph is not the action it captures but the sympathy and empathy it evokes for the blond. Once the initial shock wears off, this girl seems as real and as pigeonholed as the Harvard student who, for whatever reason, lifted up her shirt at a party last weekend...
...humiliating, Sony lost its leadership in portable music players by failing to capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files, a gap that Apple's iPod-an idea that would once have shrieked "Sony!"-has exploited spectacularly. The Japanese company has been in turmoil ever since April 2003's "Sony shock," when the firm announced drastically lower sales and earnings. Its stock has dropped 66% over the past five years...