Word: jolts
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...worldwide after traces of benzene were found in some samples. Although the drink is back in stores, Perrier has still not fully recovered from the disaster. The brand's market share -- 2% of all bottled-water sales -- is half what it was before the benzene scare. Bottlers suffered another jolt in 1991, when the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee conducted an extensive investigation of the industry. Among the committee's findings: 25% of pricey bottled waters, including such brands as Great Bear and Glacier Springs, come from the same sources as ordinary tap water; another 25% could not document...
...They were alive when we passed Edrinjaca," sobbed Hanifa Hajdarovic, whose two children, Senija, 5, and Senad, a babe in arms, did not survive the harrowing, eight-hour passage through Serb lines. "But there was a jolt. I was knocked down, and my children were both crushed. We thought we would be safe if we left Srebrenica...
There is a jolt of deja vu right at the opening of Paul McCartney Up Close. It comes when the boyish ex-Beatle walks onstage and waves to the throng of cheering fans at New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater -- the same theater where ! the Beatles made their American TV debut on Feb. 9, 1964. "We didn't even know who Ed Sullivan was when we got here," McCartney recalls in one of the reflective segments interspersed between songs. "But that was part...
...DOMESTICATED DAVID LYNCH? IT was looking bad for a while. After giving the medium a jolt with Twin Peaks, he let the series run too long on circuit overload. His next show, On the Air, was a heavy-handed TV satire just slightly to the left of WKRP in Cincinnati. But the old, weird Lynch is back in HOTEL ROOM, an HBO trilogy of stories, two of them directed by Lynch from scripts by Barry Gifford. A hooker (Glenne Headly) is caught in a psychological sparring match between a seedy customer and his mysterious friend; a husband (Crispin Glover) tries...
...that Karan's designs, unlike those of some of her rivals, work as well for a size 10 as a size 6. And while Lauren, say, can get away with minimal variation in his womenswear lines from year to year, Karan's customers look to her for a jolt of the new, season after season...