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Under the weight of these shocks, Monet took some time off from painting, then announced a bold new shift in his work, toward huge decorative panels.
Garth Brooks shocks the world by putting out a pop album under the fictional persona of Chris Gaines, giving himself a radical makeover complete with soul patch, eye makeup and, most startling of all, no cowboy hat: "[H]e looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). The music, though, is anything but shocking.
In Yediot Aharanot , Danny Rothchild, a former intelligence officer of the Israeli Defence Forces, predicted that the transfer of power in Jordan will take place "without many shocks" but that there will be hard times ahead for the Jordanian people.
Not long after he'd finished, Raskolnikov began to receive electrical shocks while taking his bath.
The paper indicates that Bradley received mild electrical shocks to treat his arrhythmia on three occasions prior to 1998.