Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complainers, not surprisingly, are popping off loudest. To them, changing the taste of the real thing was like tampering with motherhood, baseball and the flag. The new drink, they say, is nerdy and has none of the old Coke's snap. Executives at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta say they get 1,500 calls a day, almost four times the normal volume. Most of the callers, says Coke, are "concerned." And how. "I hate the new stuff," says Sharlotte Donnelly, 36, an anthropologist in Cincinnati. "It's too sweet. It tastes like Pepsi." Says Wendy Koskela, 35, vice president...
Welcome to the bullet-scarred land of morning television, the breakfast firing range where the three networks snap, crackle and pop for rating points. The fray has always been fierce, but the brawl for the top spot is now more frenzied than ever. After gradually closing in on Good Morning America for more than a year, the Today show has beaten or tied its ABC competitor five weeks in the past three months, thus breaking GMA's 163-week hold on first place. Though Today still spends most of its time as a close second,* the taste of victory brings...
...missus who likes her fiction cheap. She doesn't have her nose stuck in a thriller, she's not happy. So one day she sees an ad for a mystery weekend. You go to some dive and they fake a murder and you try to solve the case. A snap, she says to me, a downhill roll. She should live so long...
...until retiring in 1977; in Woodstock, Ill. Gould drew his original inspiration from Prohibition-era gangsterism and the new folk heroes of law enforcement: J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. Gould's wonderfully nasty, physiognomically named villains--Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, the Brow--never got the better of his snap-brimmed hero...
...native, "William (call me Bill) Atenabe," who has managed to blow $100,000 betting on U.S. high school basketball games. Before they land, Bill has invited Mike to stay with the Atenabes, whose home sprawls over one-eighth of an acre in Tokyo. Mike is not one for making snap judgments, but the Atenabe clan is certainly unusual. Take Poppa Kobe, for example. He is being forced into retirement by a giant conglomerate, but not before an attractive female deprogrammer has been sent to squeeze everything he learned on the job out of his head. Then he can open...