Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Control Data's massive layoffs created culture shock for employees because the company had been so progressive in its benefits, including day care and family counseling. The remaining employees gamely cheered one another by wearing buttons that read IT'S O.K. TO SMILE. One of the thousands who left their jobs was Norris, who gave up the chairman's post in January 1986 at age 74 to let his successor Robert Price have a freer hand in dismantling the founder's overgrown dream...
...time after his death, Hollywood fell into a reverent silence on the subject of thrillers. The few bright children of Hitchcock's style, such as Brian De Palma (Dressed to Kill) and John Carpenter (Christine), were toiling in the fetid cellar of shock tactics; they took their cue from the gore and funereal fun of Psycho, not the narrative crisscrossing of Strangers on a Train. De Palma and Carpenter were only serving their audience. The music- video generation was disinclined to track the intricacies of a well-made plot. Those tame pleasures were best left to TV sleuths and their...
...eliminating your position," Cooper was told. At first the message did not quite register. "So where am I going?" she asked. The explanation that followed was painfully clear: she was being fired. Recalls Cooper: "It hit me like a ton of bricks. I was in a state of shock." Cooper, 44, had worked for IBM and one of its subsidiaries for 24 years. She was transferred to MCI when IBM bought a minority stake in the smaller firm last March. Even though Cooper got a severance package of nearly $38,000 from MCI, she remains stunned as she looks...
...save our ears from being deafened by the noise, we sensibly turned the Clash up to full volume. The metallic choking of the tailpipe mixed and smashed against Joe Strummer's anarchic screams, producing shock waves that sent chunks of ice splintering off our frost-crusted windows...
...complete knowledge of the past, not only in fashion but in art and architecture." Lacroix's charter was to design two collections a year, according to his impulse and vision. No strings were attached, least of all purse strings. His first sketches to the millinery atelier caused shock and consternation. "Sometimes it is necessary to disturb people in order to push forward," he observes. Since he refines his ideas slowly and deliberately, most of today's headliners have antecedents in earlier collections...