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...ways. In response, some Administration officials have begun to signal to Greenspan how strongly -- how very strongly -- they hope he will come to the rescue soon by cutting interest rates. Meanwhile, Democrats have been framing the Republican budget and tax-cutting plan as a too much, too soon shock to the economy. In the televised address in which he presented his own budget plan, the President warned that deficit reduction must not "put the brakes on so fast that we risk our economic prosperity...
...near Marseilles), but 30,000 years or more -- making these the oldest cave paintings ever found. The dating is based on eight paint samples tested at three laboratories. If it holds up, says New York University anthropologist Randall White, an expert on prehistoric art, "it's a pretty big shock...
...cult of slut chic in which Madonna has been such an influence across all lines of race and style that video after video looks like a combination of film-school virtuosity and bimbo routines with a backbeat. We see films in which dramatic intensity is replaced by the shock of gore that takes place in a ruthless universe of amoral one-liners derived from James Bond...
...oddly appropriate that Mapplethorpe became a posthumous symbol of artistic freedom in 1990, when Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was prosecuted on obscenity charges for showing his photographs. While Mapplethorpe probably could not recite the First Amendment, his work was an extreme form of self-expression meant to shock people into seeing his dark world in a new light...
...biggest shock to Carter's Harvard careercame her sophomore year after a tragic accident...