Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bloodshed began shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, when Marc Lepine, 25, an unemployed electronics buff who once aspired to study at the engineering school, arrived at the hilltop campus building. Armed with a hunting knife and a .223-cal. Ruger rifle manufactured in the U.S., Lepine climbed to the second-floor corridor and shot a woman student dead. Then, a carefree grin on his face, he entered the mechanical-engineering class of Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side...
Textile Titan. Many skeptical eyes are turned on William Farley, the physical-fitness buff who acquired Northwest Industries, the maker of Fruit of the Loom products, for $1 billion in 1985. Last February Farley took over textile giant West Point-Pepperell in a $3 billion raid that included $1.6 billion of junk-bond financing. A fellow raider calls Farley's debt a "time bomb." While Farley once joked that "we're doing fine, except that the banks expect us to pay them back," he now refuses to discuss his finances or the subject of raiding. Says he: "I'm staying...
Thanks to unusually passionate praise from car-buff magazines, the Miata is by far the most talked-about new auto on the market. Road & Track named it one of the five best cars in the world, along with the Ferrari Testarossa, the Porsche 911 Carrera, the Corvette ZR-1 and the Mercedes-Benz 300E, chichi chariots all. Not the least of the Miata's attributes is its base price: just $13,800, or about $600 less than the average new-car price that U.S. consumers are currently paying. At the moment, however, the Miata is so popular that some dealers...
...wake crashing her way; she required 130 stitches. On Easter Sunday at Miami's Hobie Cat Beach, a nine- year-old boy was caught in the path of a water-scooter race; he died the next day. The skiers themselves suffer many of the injuries. Last summer a ski buff was killed when he hit a seawall...
...tastes became more refined, sensuous dining did the trick. Richelieu (the 18th century duke, not, thank heaven, the Cardinal) gave elegant little suppers for his friends and their mistresses, all of whom dined in the buff. Madame de Pompadour got interesting results with truffles. Brillat-Savarin, the French jurist and gastronome, found that the truffle "makes women more amiable and men more amorous." Rabelais, on the other hand, got his kicks from marzipan...