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Thus Joan Lunden on ABC-TV said to Steve Crowley, “Are you ready to use the R-word recession ?” Many words like recession could be called semi-taboo words or limited taboos, for scarcely anyone would be shocked or offended to encounter them, though some people avoid using them.
The script, meanwhile, is the stuff of bad two character plays, with spurious excuses for conflict (Boone storms out when Whale speaks tenderly of the naked, young men who once populated his pool) and a long, climactic monologue about a (fictional) wartime trauma that ostensibly shocked Whale into keeping his past under wraps.
Perhaps it is because I am just one of the “ordinary readers with no special knowledge of the ancient East” [New English Bible, 1970] that I want more than anything else “a quiver in my heart” when I read the 23rd Psalm and confess to being rather shocked to find that “the Lord” is no longer my shepherd.
Works such as Matisse's 1907 Blue Nude shocked even rival-to-be Picasso.
says that the company shocked Wall St. yesterday with its surprise disclosure of a $1.