Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rivals promptly began lining up to chip away at Xerox's 70% chunk of the U.S. office-copier market. IBM last month introduced a third line of copiers. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. is planning a massive sales effort for its new plain-paper VHS copiers. Last week Eastman Kodak Co. weighed in with its Ektaprint 150 series, a supersophisticated elaboration of the Ektaprint 100 machine first marketed last fall. At the touch of a few buttons, the most expensive machine in Kodak's new line arranges multipage documents and copies, collates and staples them-all at the rate...
Paloma Picasso, who stands to inherit a sizable chunk of Father Pablo's multimillion dollar art fortune, may have felt less than flush when she agreed to appear in Immoral Tales back in 1973. The French-made, soft-core porn film casts Paloma, 26, as a 17th century Transylvanian countess who gets her kicks by bathing in the blood of virgins. Though given few lines to speak, Paloma appears nude, engages in a lesbian love scene and at one point bathes in a vat of genuine pig's blood. "I did not like the part...
When Yntema and Fullerton departed, the Crimson lost an unhealthy chunk of its first-place potential, and so Harvard will have to aim for a swarm of second through sixth place finishes. While the top 12 finishers collect points, there is a four-point gap between sixth and seventh...
...most oppressive and sick manifestations of mainstream American culture carried too many bad associations with it and became too tiring to handle. A hippie backlash. It seemed like the only thing to do was tank up and join the fray. Bronson was surely one of the heavies: his chunk figure was the perfect vehicle for the fascist, amoral tactics he used to smash rival crooks, fight mercenary struggles, snare women by ignoring them. It wasn't that you couldn't tell what was going on inside his head-you couldn't even tell whether that concrete block on his shoulders...
...Diego include John Alessio, a former bookmaker turned racetrack operator and C. Arnholt Smith, a highlevel con man chosen "Mr. San Diego of the Century" by the local paper. Smith used the money from his bank, U.S. National, to run deals with organized crime in California, taking a healthy chunk out to support himself and his friends. Among his friends is Richard Nixon...