Word: torridity
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...average cost of making a Hollywood movie, which had doubled since 1977, actually declined this year (from $9.6 million to $9.4 million). Of the early summer hits, none ran up a tab of more than $20 million. Star Trek II, which has matched its predecessor's early torrid pace, was made for $11 million, one-fourth the cost of the original; the sequel returned its production cost to Paramount within ten days of release...
First color photos of a torrid surface stir envy in Houston
...wharf whenever anything romantic happens. And there's also a piano on the wharf (and another in, of all places, Doc's laboratory) so that Mac can liven up spontaneous parties with his honky tonk jazz. And everyone speaks in cliches, and the sky is always purple and torrid like one of those sea scenes from Woolworth...
...baseball Hall of Fame member who broke in with the pennant-winning 1924 New York Giants at 18, becoming the youngest player ever to appear in the World Series, and racked up a career batting average of .311 in 13 seasons (his best year: 1930, when he hit a torrid .379); after a long illness; in Chicago. After retiring as a player, Lindstrom spent 13 years as baseball coach at Northwestern University...
Attractive companies have felt ever more vulnerable since President Reagan took office. When the new Attorney General, William French Smith, asserted that "bigness is not necessarily badness," merger makers saw his words as a green light to corporate takeovers. If the present torrid pace of acquisitions continues, U.S. companies could spend $70 billion this year to absorb more than 2,000 other firms. Says Robert Lekachman, professor of economics at New York's Lehman College: "The Reagan Administration has unleashed the wildest collection of mergers and takeover events since Napoleon conquered most of Europe...