Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive I've ever dealt with. But he did have some difficulty expressing himself." Yet former Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro, another board member, says that this has not turned out to be a problem. Says he: "The beautiful thing is that Opel has come out of his shell...
...what the jury said, you look like a rapist to me." He calls a minister a "scuzzbag," a Congressman "a pimp in a business suit," an Italian chef "an immigrant with a Crock Pot." "Me," "my" and "I" are his favorite words. He is forever complaining to his wan, shell-shocked station manager, played by Max Wright, that guests are dull: "Get me ax murderers, a rapist, Freddie Silverman." When he wants to get rid of a possible cohost, he appeals to the Lord-man to man, of course: "I don't know if the concept...
...most sophisticated facility is its Maximum Containment Laboratory, which handles highly lethal diseases that have no known antidotes. Workers, all of whom are volunteers, must punch in a code to open the outer shell of the lab; after a trip through a chemical-shower chamber, they must provide another personal number to gain access to the pressurized inner sanctum. There the scientists wear seamless blue space suits, equipped with their own air filtration systems, to work with some of the world's most lethal microbes, including those that cause Lassa fever and Ebola virus, two maladies that produce severe internal...
There are a myriad of other clubs around town that are well worth checking out as well, if you have the time or the money. In fact, money should not be insignificant in any of your plans about music this summer. You'll have to shell out at least 10 dollars and probably more like 15 to see any of the big names--like Gaye or Costello And in the smaller venues, the cover charge will probably range between five and 10, depending on the quality of the act So don't go wild with this smorgasbord of sound pack...
...paper. "Why weren't these kids yachting oft Newport, anyway, or summering in Nantucket." The answer, of course, is that the Harvard crew had better things to do, namely show 12,400 Cincinnati folk who didn't know better why the Eastern "preppies" from Harvard can row a crew shell through the water faster than anyone else in the nation. Wheeler wasn't the only one surprised. Previously undefeated Western powerhouse Washington, Brown and Yale were similarly nonplussed at being left behind in the Crimson wake...