Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...required no calibration, since the book was Mia Farrow's memoir, What Falls Away (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 370 pages; $25). An author as hot as Farrow doesn't go on a book tour. Barbara, Oprah and Larry date her up. She was, after all, involved in a show-biz shocker. Four and a half years ago, she discovered that Woody Allen, her lover of 12 years and the father of one of her 14 children (four natural, 10 adopted), was also the lover of her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi. This at a time when Farrow thought...
High political priest of all historians Arthur Schlesinger Jr. assembled a jury a while back to judge presidential greatness. This flocking of fellow liberals quite naturally elevated John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and diminished Jerry Ford and Ronald Reagan. But the shocker was that Bill Clinton was also put down there with Hayes, Arthur and Benjamin Harrison and devastatingly close to Calvin Coolidge. The White House has not stopped quivering in indignation. Clinton's greatest second-term battle may be against historical irrelevance, and there is ample evidence that he understands the difficulty of being a heroic leader...
...John who?" They aren't asking that question at AT&T's main office in Basking Ridge, N.J., anymore, but they are just about everywhere else. In a shocker, AT&T, the nation's 10th largest company, with estimated 1996 revenues of $51 billion to $52 billion, dialed long distance--to a Midwest commercial printer, of all places--to find John Walter, its new president and heir apparent to CEO Robert Allen, who will retire in 1998, two years early. "When one of the world's largest companies loses its president and can't find anyone inside, what's going...
...desperate; it bends to the mood of each scene. Liman knows where the human comedy in Favreau's engaging script is: at the edges of the film frame, in the taut corners of a sensitive loser's mouth, in an unheard "I love you" (the film's subtle climactic shocker) on the other end of a phone line. He also gets super work from the whole cast--especially Vaughn, whose blithe charisma could make him the star Trent only dreams of becoming...
...post-game conference following Harvard's dramatic 22-21 shocker over Yale, then-junior Eion Hu was asked about his reaction to the victory in the face of so many disappointing losses...