Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 of an insurance brokerage in San Francisco: "Real Coke had punch. This tastes almost like it's flat...
Some sharp operators spotted opportunities in Coke's move. Dennis Overstreet, the owner of a wine store in Beverly Hills, bought 500 cases of the old stuff when he heard of the change. Two weekends ago, Overstreet sold the last of his stock, at $1.25 a 6 1/2-oz. bottle, or $30 a case. "They lined up around the block," he said. "It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life." One customer: Rock Singer Al Stewart (Time Passages), who called from London and put five cases on his American Express card...
...Cambridge is really neat. I read about all this historical stuff growing up, about the revolutionary war, and now I just get off the subway and here it all is," said Hugh J. Murphy, a resident of Santa Rose, Calif who stopped by the new information booth one day last week, laden with backpack, to find out where he could stay while doing temporary work in Cambridge...
Tired of all this serious stuff? Looking for some really bad cinema? Head up to Off the Walt Cinema and Cafe (Central Square, 15 Pearl St.) in late July for its "Fourth Annual Summer Schlock Festival". No films are scheduled yet, but you can bet Attack of the Killer Tomatoes will show up on one of those screens. A cartoon festival precedes the crud...
...Scioscia was just 92." He lurks behind the backstop, aiming a radar gun as purposefully as Clint Eastwood. "Straight change-ups 71, hard curves 78, soft ones 73," he mutters in review. "Ninety-mile-per-hour fast balls the whole game long, and his best stuff is waiting at the end. I'm telling you, this kid is amazing." A mustachioed Cuban in a white straw hat, Brito is the Dodger scout who discovered 17-year-old Valenzuela seven springs ago in Mexico. He went there to observe a skinny infielder, but could not help noticing an ample lefthanded breaking...