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Just 10 km (6 miles) farther east is the Manacas-Iznaga, where you can explore a lovely colonial hacienda house and its startling, rocket-shaped Torre de Manacas-Iznaga.
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.
Department of Misplaced Rhetorical Imagery: In light of last year's school shootings, the LAT lead headline is somewhat startling: "[Gov.
The Globe relays a "startling report transmitted on the world-wide internet" that Diana has been cloned by a "mad scientist" and that the baby will be born by the end of the year at a secret laboratory on an island off the coast of China.
The Post's off-lead is a startling piece about the 1980 cancer death of Joseph Harding, a uranium worker at a government-owned Kentucky plant.