Word: razors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew, of course, that there was no bomb in the bag, but I couldn't imagine what was making the noise. I opened it and discovered that my electric razor had turned on when I dropped the bag. I laughed and showed the buzzing razor to the terrified people, who were peering cautiously from the corridor. The policeman crawled from under the bench, and the two warriors returned to their table. We all laughed together...
...week began, corporate raiders seemed to have been cowed by the surge in anti-takeover sentiment. That mood may have helped persuade Revlon Group Chairman Ronald Perelman to give up his hostile $4.1 billion offer to buy Gillette, the razor-blade maker. Probably more important, though, was the ! fast $34 million that Revlon earned by promising to back off. Investors branded the payoff as a clear case of greenmail, since Gillette agreed to buy back Perelman's 13.9% stake in the company at a premium price that was unavailable to other shareholders...
...Eliot was teaching him, and he thought how this intimacy--Eliot carefully maneuvering the razor around his chin, washing off extra shaving cream, patting his face dry; this thrill of smooth, wet skin, shining--this belonged to men who were lovers alone. It seemed to him a kind of celebration...
...Rice Krispies cookies and tremulous advice ("Peggy, you know what a penis is -- stay away from it!"). She enjoys vamping Michael the beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls out his Ginsbergian verse ("Sucking pods of bitterness/ In the madhouse of Doctor Dread/ Razor shreds of rat puke fall on my bare arms"). She is even touched by Charlie's perplexed devotion, his doomed itch for pop stardom, his '50s suaveness that plays like '80s nerdity. Youth may be wasted on the young, but Peggy Sue savors it the second time around...
Cuomo's mind is swift and shrewd, almost awesome in its ability to grasp and retain material. He takes a lot from his voracious reading. "This morning," he wrote recently in his diary, "I read an hour or so of The Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham's novel about a restless man searching for inner understanding). It always had good meanings for me." Another morning he rereads portions of Thomas Jefferson's autobiography. "One thing struck me," wrote Cuomo, "the logical forcefulness of his debate...