Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When news of the ski switch leaked out, Rossignol's stock immediately slumped from 1,521 francs (about $249) to 1,350 francs ($221) on the Paris Bourse. The team criticism and the stock plunge, which wiped out 11% of Rossignol's market value, stung company officials. Stormed President Laurent Boix-Vives: "We don't have to prove ourselves. Half the 66 medals awarded at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics and the last two world championships, including 13 golds, were won on our skis...
Classic Hitchcock in skeletal form: the setting of Rear Window; the mama's-boy murderer from Strangers on a Train; and even a fashionable switch of identities from Vertigo and Marnie. There are other rewards in this low- rent thriller. Guttenberg is no one's nominee for an '80s Cary Grant, but his frat-boy smile freezes nicely when he realizes he is suspected of murder. Until she must act the trollop to entice the killer, McGovern makes for an agreeably matter-of-fact heroine. If only there were a little sleek skin on the bones of this plot...
Last night, the Garden clock ticked off the final second, the green light went on, the puck off the stick of Hodges went in the Crimson net, and the goal judge flipped the switch to light the red lamp, but the little bulb never shone--its green partner was already blazing brightly...
This year 17 of the 20 undergraduates who applied to switch houses were able to do so. Last winter, all 17 students who applied for interhouse transfers got their wish. Eight houses accepted new students this year Colvin said...
...tunnel, you can't walk straight," he says. "It's a very strange feeling. You start reeling towards the wall. You lose your sense of orientation, of equilibrium." He finally made it, though, and the next time he went through the passage he made sure he found the light switch...