Word: shark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innocent child possessed by the devil. A shark with a strange taste for shallow waters (and careless swimmers). An actor willing to sell his soul in exchange for a decent role. A good horror movie can be outlined in a sentence...
...maneuver known as recapitalization. The idea is to create a debt-burdened company less attractive to raiders. Last week both publishing giant Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1986 revenues: $1.3 billion), of Orlando, and travel conglomerate Allegis (1986 revenues: $9.2 billion), of Elk Grove Township, Ill., made use of this shark repellent to fend off marauders...
WILL VINTON started out smail, an unknown with a lotta heart and guts to spare. His first effort, crude, untutored, won an Oscar. Okay, it's inconsequential, a tiny splash in that shark-infested pond called Show Business, but it was something. A start. A beginning. And now, after years of hard work, he's hit the big time--Domino's Pizza commericials...
...bowed. The trouble was that the studio wanted more hand. We spent close to a million dollars on this series of hands -- 40 or 50 of them. It was as if you had to be a mechanic to make this movie. It's better to work with a shark or a gorilla, because you have more space. But a hand...
...curb on Manhattan's East Side, disgorging a platoon, perhaps even a battalion, of the richest inhabitants of the planet. A seasoned observer estimates that the crowd rushing inside includes at least 100 people worth more than $50 million apiece. The fall art-auction season -- the "shark feed," as Connoisseur Editor Thomas Hoving calls it -- is at gavel pitch, and once again great works, and some not so great, are going, going . . . gone...