Word: shocked
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...looked as if the prosecutors had everything in their favor: a law-and-order judge, a seemingly conservative jury and seven pieces of evidence that could not fail to shock and disgust. The defendants had only one thing on their side: the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But the verdict last week cleared Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie, of obscenity charges stemming from their exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe...
Alternative Religion. Join the Hare Krishna movement. To fit in, you need only a pink rayon robe and a long shock of hair on the back of your head, which is not a problem with my baldness pattern. They shave the rest of your head and everyone's happy. A bonus is the swell performance opportunities in front of the Coop on Saturday nights (I want the tambourine) and the "delicious 10-course vegetarian feasts" advertised on the little leaflets they hand...
Sachs acknowledges that he has some critics,and that his plan has helped frame an ongoingacademic debate. "There were people at thebeginning who said that the shock program wouldlead to chaos and so forth," he says...
Judging by his past record, Sachs has reason tobe confident. Using a similar shock therapytreatment under Sachs's guidance, Bolivia becamethe only Latin American nation to endhyperinflation in the 1980s. Sachs now advises allthree political parties in Bolivia, including onethat harshly criticized his economic reforms...
...several known earthquake zones east of the Rockies. In 1755 Boston experienced a severe jolt, as did Charleston in 1886. Sooner or later a major quake is going to hit these areas again. And unlike the Western U.S., where hot rock close to the surface provides a squishy, shock-absorbing cushion, the middle of the continental plate is cold, hard and thick. Like their precursors in the past century, the next large quakes to strike in the Midwest or East are likely to resonate far and wide, like giant hammers hitting a huge block of steel...