Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City had a reassuring, familiar look: lots of clean-cut classics, long on style, short on thrill. But for a sagging, badly scared industry, that was headline news. What set Seventh Avenue cheering was the skirt that wasn't there: the mini, last year's sexy shocker...
...what? Now, Fatal Attraction is a fun movie. But so was Friday the 13th. This is indubitably the first time a slasher film has been up for best pic. If the Academy wanted to select a truly good shocker, it should have picked River's Edge...
...wonder that at 8:30 a.m. Washington time last Friday, virtually every money manager and trader was intently watching a TV, a computer terminal or a wire-service ticker. When the fateful figure at last flashed across the screens, it was another shocker -- but this time a good one. The Government announced that the November deficit was $13.2 billion, a stunning 25% decline from October's record $17.6 billion shortfall and the best monthly trade showing since the $13 billion gap in April. Exports surged 9% from October, to $23.8 billion, as imports fell 6%, to $37 billion. Inflation numbers...
...team, the Lions will be looking to regain the league title it lost, for the first time in eight years, last year. The Crimson--which finished second in the Ancient Eight behind Yale--had a hand in the Lions' downfall in '86, pulling off an early-season 4-1 shocker on the strength of a quartet of Catliff goals...
...decision was a shocker on Wall Street, where biotechnology stocks had been big winners. After the FDA ruling, the price of Genentech's shares plunged 11 1/2 points in one day, to 36 3/4. By the end of last week the price stood at 37 3/4. A domino effect also knocked down the stocks of rival biotech firms, some of which are developing drugs similar to t-PA. Such futuristic- sounding companies as Amgen, Biogen, Centocor, Cetus and Chiron saw their shares drop anywhere from 7% to 11% before recovering some of those losses...