Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ETTA JAMES: SEVEN YEAR ITCH (Island). Attention: danger of electric shock. High-voltage R. and B. from a woman who has so much funk, soul, sex and humor that, on a tune like Jump into My Fire, you can hear the flames crackle...
Johnson, 56, may have grossly miscalculated. When he announced during an Oct. 19 dinner at Atlanta's Waverly hotel that he and seven other managers intended to take the company private in a $17.6 billion leveraged buyout, RJR's board members reacted with shock, one of them now says, "because he was raiding the company from the inside." At first blush, the $75-a-share offer seemed generous, compared with the market price of about $56 at the time. But the directors' shock became outrage when they later learned about the huge piece of the action that Johnson...
...Last week, in a mad act of violence, Barend Strydom, 23, an Afrikaner ex-policeman, gunned down blacks on a street in downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government wants them to tone down their militancy...
...going to shock you with an astonishing figure that I still have trouble believing: Did you know that (according to club members) after Harvard and M.I.T., the Porcellian Club has the largest endowment of any organization in Cambridge? That means that the P.C. has more money at its disposal than any of the many cultural or educational institutions in this area--like Lesley College, the Longy School of Music, St. Paul's Church and others too numerous to mention...
There are other ways to deal. My roommate reacted to the shock by swallowing a goodly portion of Absolut, which was a mistake from his point of view (which was mostly upside-down, over a vomit-filled trash can), but gave me the opportunity to hear the uninhibited ramblings of a highly intelligent, avidly political Slavic major who was shocked to his soul by the victory of two men like George Bush and Dan Quayle...