Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reckless investment for Kodak. The previous attraction in the company's Magic Eye Theater, a 3-D film called Magic Journeys, was seen by 19 million people in less than four years. Asked how long EO will run, a Disney spokesman replies, "EOns." Walt Disney and George Eastman might shudder at the expense (not to mention that atrocious pun), but they would appreciate their successors' canny blending of commerce and entertainment...
Supreme as Boeing's reputation is, it is also fragile. On those very rare occasions when a Boeing jet crashes, a shudder not only of sympathy but of concern goes through Seattle. When a Japan Air Lines 747 went down last year, killing 520, the company sent a twelve-member team of investigators to the scene. Boeing later admitted that repair work it had once done on the plane's tail area had been faulty...
Occasionally, while the elder Guinness is turning the TV dial, searching for the news or a nature program, he comes across one of his many selves. "I switch it off within 30 seconds," he says with a slight shudder. "Once I've done something, it doesn't really have any interest for me anymore." He likes movies, but he loves the stage and is even now on the lookout for a good play. At the moment Alan Bennett (The Old Country) is his favorite English playwright; David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), his favorite American. Between roles, Sir Alec...
What currently makes importers and retailers shudder is the tariff increase imposed by presidential proclamation last summer and instituted on Nov. 1. The American taste for Italian macaroni is on the rise; sales have grown from 10 million lbs. in 1975 to 110 million lbs. a year now. Even so, that accounts for only 4% of 2.3 billion lbs. of pasta eaten annually in this country. The tariff increase reflects U.S. resentment at the protective duty Europeans maintain on citrus imports from this country. This higher tariff means that consumers will pay 10% to 15% more than the current...
...needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands on end a bit when he encounters "Alarmingly articulate, incorrigibly witty, overeducated but extreme- ly attractive NYC woman." A female reader of New York might enjoy a chuckling little shudder at this: "I am here! A caring, knowing, daffy, real, tough, vulnerable and handsome brown-eyed psychoanalyst." One conjures up the patient on the couch and a Freudian in the shape of Daffy Duck shouting: "You're desPICable...