Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thwarting of Goodbye Massoud was the most recent, and perhaps the most daring, success of the CIA's operation to assist the embattled guerrillas. Like most of the world, the U.S. was outraged when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and proceeded to transform it into a puppet state. That shock, together with widespread sympathy for the mujahedin, has not abated as Moscow has tried to consolidate its tenuous control over the nation by resorting to carpet bombing, chemical warfare and outright massacre of civilians...
...first shock came early in the fall, with the news that Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez had been officially punished by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky for sexually harassing a junior faculty member in the department. The University confirmed that a "serious" harassment case had occurred in the Government department, but refused to disclose the name of the harasser, or the punishment meted out. The response was in keeping with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' official policy not to disclose any particulars in harassment cases, and its more informal policy to consider such cases a "private matter...
...Visual and Environmental Studies professors probably got a big shock when they got to the last four minutes of Eames Demetrios's 70-minute thesis film. After 66 minutes of what viewers called outstanding technical work, the movie shifts to a four-minute scene of two people having sex--in absolute silence and with an unmoving camera. Audiences that saw it reacted with shock and silence. "There was nothing erotic about it at all," said one viewer. "It was shocking, and its message seemed to be that sex is meaningless. It was part of an entire view of life...
...staff and the College found out, heads--or rather Goodfader's head--rolled. Positions on University publications are only open to Harvard students, and Epps ordered the 23-year-old Georgetown University graduate off campus after finding out about his charade. Staff members on the Review were in shock over the incident and said they never suspected the masquerade for a minute before Goodfader confessed...
...common wisdom among theater watchers is that Rauch leans toward the first, appealing side of Howard's paradox, while Warner is more likely to shock and horrify Warner embraces and encourages this interpretation. "Theater is change, it's revolution," he says. "It should frighten people, change them so they don't know what to expect." His shows have sometimes drawn flak from offended critics for their heavy emphasis on sex, particularly bisexuality and androgyny--which he calls "crucial" for breaking down preconceptions, citing David Bowie as an artistic hero and model. The "Paul aesthetic" also includes mylar--greatly in evidence...