Word: shock
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...three of them racing through the Louvre attempting to beat the time set in Bande à Part (Band Of Outsiders), or mimicking the classic streetwalk of Jean Seabourg in Breathless. These are obviously devices more geared to movie dorks like myself; if seeing a clip from Shock Corridor, Samuel Fuller’s 1963 opus, brings a smile of recognition to your lips, there are at least some pleasures in this flick...
Davey got a preview of the culture shock awaiting him at HLS when his friend Frank journeyed east two years ago to study finance at Boston College. “I found the overall Boston area to maybe be—I don’t know.” Frank stumbles, searching for the right words. “There was a difference in culture...
...went into a little bit of shock,” junior Rochelle Bell said after the loss at Cornell. “We were busy thinking we can’t lose, we can’t lose...
...that brought Washington's point man in Iraq, Ambassador J. Paul Bremer, rushing home last November for unscheduled consultations at the White House. Back then, the U.S. casualty total was climbing steadily and there was no sign of an end to the insurgency; Capitol Hill was reeling from sticker shock over the administration's $87 billion budget request; the Iraqi Governing Council handpicked by Bremer had failed to achieve legitimacy and was making no progress towards drawing up a new constitution. All of that made Bremer's three-year plan for nurturing Iraqi democracy a luxury the Bush administration could...
...just want to acknowledge,” she said, “that it is a shock to the organization and a change in climate...