Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miller brewery in Milwaukee preyed on him from 1981 to 1983 by taunting him with loud noises. Beverly claimed that employees popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles and even set off fireworks to see his reaction. Helpless in the grip of the disorder, he would throw himself to the floor. Eventually he became so anxious, the judges found, that he could no longer hold a job. The Miller company, which would pay the penalty, plans to appeal the ruling...
...American Museum of the Moving Image to assemble a collection of nearly 50 classic video games and call it historical scholarship. The exhibit, Hot Circuits: A Video Arcade, complete with earnest musings on the sociology of it all, can be seen through Nov. 26 on a newly opened floor of the museum in Queens...
...First Amendment has never entertained a blush factor. Free artistic expression is broadly guaranteed. The question is whether the right of free expression carries along with it the privilege of federal subsidy. New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who tore up the Serrano catalog on the Senate floor, concedes the artist's "right to produce filth" but adds that "taxpayers' dollars should not be utilized to promote...
...particularly ebullient at noon the next day. As he met with reporters last Friday, the chairman of Warner Communications playfully handed out black-and-yellow Batman lapel pins, a promotional item for his studio's big summer film. Shunning a chair, the executive casually plopped himself down on the floor and began extolling the deal he hoped to see through. Said he: "There could not be a better fit in the world...
...global media board. Rumors and speculation ran wild, and stock prices gyrated, as directors of Time met last Thursday and early Friday to consider the hostile $10.7 billion takeover offer that Paramount Communications had put forward the previous week. After deliberating for ten hours on the 34th floor of the Time & Life Building in Manhattan, the board approved a double-barreled response that demonstrated Time's determination to complete its merger with Warner. Declaring that Paramount's $175-a-share bid was "not in the best interests of Time, its stockholders and its other constituencies," the board, which consists...