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...loops in pieces like Come Out; Choreographer Childs had created her early works, like Street Dance. "No one organized an official group or issued a manifesto, as would have occurred in Europe," says John Howell, a New York % journalist who was part of the scene. "Instead, it was just wham...
...cinematic clunker. Charles Bronson has not had a big U.S. box-office success in years. Steve McQueen is long dead. Meanwhile Code of Silence, Chuck Norris' third movie in eight months, sold more tickets in its opening week than any other movie in the country. In his strictly wham-bam B-movie genre, Norris, a former karate champion, has become the undisputed superstar. No longer a cult figure but still well this side of A-list famous, Norris and some of his Hollywood partisans figure his celebrity is analogous to that of Clint ( Eastwood. "He is the next McQueen...
...Ulese Jr. dived under a bed as the funnel approached. But Maude Bell, 48, wanted to see the storm's awful majesty. "She just walked out of the room and into the den to watch the hail fall," says Ulese. "Within three or four seconds, wham! The house just collapsed." Ulese dug his wife of 28 years out of the rubble, but she never regained consciousness...
...citrus fruit is grown. It is believed that a quarter of the nearly ripe crop, worth about $250 million, was wrecked by temperatures as low as 16°. "It was just like Pearl Harbor," says Everett Fischer, general manager of Winter Garden Citrus Growers. "You wake up and-wham!-you've been bombed." Commodity speculators last week bid up the price of orange juice by 15%, and store prices are expected to rise accordingly. Florida produce from peppers to cucumbers and tomatoes was also devastated. Says Strawberry Grower Roy Parke: "Losses are hitting 100%-berries, bush and bloom...
...Wham! He hit, and last week the retired steelworker from Harrisburg, Pa., got a check for $336,157.56 (with 20% off the top for Uncle Sam), the first of 21 annual payments. Jorich plans to use the money to buy a new Cadillac, a beach house for his wife, a college education for his granddaughter and more lottery tickets. Why? "I need pocket money...