Word: bros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list of bestselling brands, which includes Nescafé, Quik, Nestea and L'Oréal. In January, Nestlé acquired Ward-Johnston, the candy company that produces such matinee munchies as Raisinets, Goobers and Sno-Caps, and in April it signed an agreement to buy Hills Bros, coffee. Last week the company announced plans to purchase Los Angeles-based Carnation, the leading maker of evaporated milk, for about $3 billion, or $83 a share. The deal will produce the biggest non-oil takeover in history, and is expected to double Nestlé's business...
There would be no question of just skipping to the highlights: since 1978, when Warner Bros. Records released his first album when he was 17, for Prince it has been highlights all the way. For You was not the hottest seller in the stores, but the fact that Prince had written, produced and played all the instruments on his first effort got the press making comparisons to Stevie Wonder. There were four more albums and a wonderful grab bag of singles like When You Were Mine and Little Red Corvette. Now there is Purple Rain, a No. 1 sound-track...
...poker; one of them accuses another of cheating and another shoots him dead with a gun. They are little satirists, walking parodies of humanity." The sequence suggests ingenuity rampant on a field of lunacy. There has been nothing quite like it since they shut down Termite Terrace, the Warner Bros, cartoon shop...
...thrown by the show's producers. They had heard the star telling an interviewer that the only thing she had never done was to ride an elephant. So when MacLaine arrived at the theater, she was caught by surprise, and nuzzled, by Targa, queen of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The pachyderm obligingly knelt to help MacLaine aboard-"She was so sweet and kind," the star said-though Targa also unfurled her trunk and snatched up most of MacLaine's chocolate birthday cake. Perhaps the most exuberant event was the Broadway song and dance itself. MacLaine...
...education accommodated Fundamentalist Christians in 1974 by requiring that evolution be taught as "only one of several explanations" of the origins of mankind, some publishers began to alter their texts to make them more widely acceptable. For instance, in the 1981 high school biology book published by Laidlaw Bros., a division of Doubleday, the word evolution did not appear, even in the glossary or index...