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...shock every time you find another black conservative," says Holly A. Foster '97, who is black. "There's a growing contingency, but it's still taboo...
Nabokov liked to shock as well as enchant. A biology professor who suspects his wife of adultery frightens her to death by putting a skeleton in her bed. There is a boyish cruelty similar to Alfred Hitchcock's in many of Nabokov's mock-gothic tales. He was an ardent hunter of clichas and kitsch, and a mischievous parodist of traditional literary forms. The familiar 1952 story Lance sends up science fiction whose "Star tsars, directors of Galactic Unions, are practically replicas of those peppy, red-haired executives in earthy earth jobs." The little-known 1924 tale The Dragon turns...
...Titanic" throws concepts like taste and restraint overboard, treating the audience to a voyeuristic daytrip through neurosis, incest and the broadest of sexual humor. Alexander S. Franklin '96's new production of "Titanic," through the strengths of its cast, steers a tight course through the hazards of obscenity and shock and treats the audience to a naughty good time...
...guilty. If one believed the jurors could honestly find the circumstantial evidence overwhelming, could they not also, just as honestly, find it unpersuasive? No, it was not the jury that was thinking in terms of categorical behavior; it was much of white America. And if that were so, the shock expressed at the polar reactions to the verdict was a Casablanca "shocked." Who was hiding what, from whom...
...initial shock of the arrest of Simpson was dying down, the United States played host to the 1994 World Cup--an event that featured both the thrill of victory for Brazil, the agony of defeat for Baggio and his Italian teammates and its own dose of tragedy in the murder of a Colombian soccer star who inadvertantly scored the winning goal for the United States when those two countries squared...