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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.
Consequently, he has written an extremely strange book: In reading it, you are subjected to changes in personality as abrupt and jarring as nasty little electric shocks administered to the base of your spine.
5. What is the only thing that could bring back the oil shocks of the 1970s, according to Steve Chapman?
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.
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.