Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knuckle showdown among the networks. The absolute ceiling to shoot for, his own staff counseled, was $150 million. Ueberroth wanted more. He and others hatched what was, in effect, a one-shot blind bidding contest, and ABC, pulled along by the bold auctioneering, shut out the competition with a shocker of a bid: $225 million. Buoyed by the TV deal, he turned toward his other big source of revenue, America's largest corporations. To create an aura of coveted elitism, he drastically reduced the number of sponsors to 30 (there had been 381 in the 1980 Winter Games at Lake...
That is the test: if the hankies come out, Boheme is a success. The shocker was that onlookers misted up not for Ronstadt but for another Mimi, tiny, strawberry-blond Soprano Patti Cohenour. (Lead duties are divided; Cohenour sings four of eight weekly performances; Ronstadt three, and another Mimi, Caroline Peyton, the remaining show.) The sweet-voiced Cohenour and her surprisingly strong Rodolfo, Country Singer Gary Morris, seemed lyrically in love. The other leads, a fine Marcel (Howard McGillin) and a brilliant Musette (Cass Morgan), took fire from them. The night before, Ronstadt and her Rodolfo, David Carroll, had sung...
...although the Cantabs could, as a result, fall slightly in the national rankings due out today, they're bound to climb back into the Top Live in next week's all-important final regular season rankings as a result of yesterday's shocker...
...prognosis was unsurprising for the three Harvard students attending the day-long conference. But it came as a shocker for others in the audience. Undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania, for instance, where there is an "intercultural center"--a building for minority organizations and special functions--could not believe minority student groups at Harvard had no automatic allocation of funding for academic and support services including freshman orientation events. At Yale there is a Hispanic officer for minority concerns under the Dean of Student Affairs. At Columbia, a Chicano from the Southwest fills the role of Dean of Students...
...just like that, the one-goal shocker seemed to erase the pain of the last month's six straight shutout losses and propel the squad into the finest of moods at the most opportune of times...