Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wild Wild Life, currently jollying up Top 40 radio, could be the Heads' happiest hit yet. It is, additionally, the musical cornerstone for True Stories, perfectly capturing the sense of wonder that infuses the film. If True Stories hits American films the way Talking Heads hit music, things are going to be different around here. It's going to be a wild, wild life...
...profits into research and development. In the meantime, other discounters, like the Koreans, are rushing into the U.S. market to fill the discount gap. "I'm meeting with a group from Seoul tomorrow. Their prices will be better," says Donald Kingsborough, chairman of a California toy company, Worlds of Wonder, that uses a high volume of chips in products like Teddy Ruxpin, the talking bear...
...with these criticisms or not, it should be of concern that an ombudsman, whose function it is to conduct internal reviews of a newspaper's coverage, should have to play the role of commentator because political journalists are in unanimous agreement. That he felt so compelled leads one to wonder if such agreement among journalists would result if the Administration official in question had not been a former television correspondent and if the issue had not been press relations...
...oddity in that although it starred Schwarzenegger, it had a plot, characters, and a hero simple, brutal, and ethnic enough for Arnold to play without undue stretching of credibility. It almost works--the tension created as Arnold gets in dutch with some mobsters is legitimate enough, and you wonder how he's going to squeeze out of it, he being large and not easily squeezed...
...growth spurt. Future profits might be worth far more than the tax advantage gained by selling them now, notes Wallace Turner, a New York City broker for the investment firm of Smith Barney. Says he: "Our culture has put such value on tax breaks that even the savviest investors wonder whether they should dump their best-performing stocks." Wall Streeters hope that any widespread selling urge on the part of small investors will be offset by the lure of a potentially bigger bull market ahead. In fact, some advisers are telling investors to sell their stocks to get the capital...