Word: killer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minnesota Supercomputer Center, puts it, "Seymour is magic in this business." Whether Cray Research can flourish without its founding genius remains to be seen. Analysts say that within three to five years it should be clear whether the company has wisely cut its losses or created a killer competitor by trading away its most valuable asset...
...late 1970s at all. I can't imagine that anyone truly misses disco, leisure suits, white polyester, pop rocks, Shaun Cassidy, mood rings, John Travolta, sideburns, Billy beer, pet rocks, Jim Jones, Starsky and Hutch, macrame, fern bars, Leif Garrett, Dynamite magazine, Craig Morton, Carter Country, Orca the Killer Whale, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, Debby Boone, Pong, the Captain and Tennille, gas lines, or the movie Ice Castles and its execrable theme song...
...Angeles barrio. Within five weeks he was free on bail, living with the Christian Brothers and attending a local college under an assumed name. Friends raised $30,000 for his defense. "From my investigation," wrote Gaylin, "it is clear that more tears have since been shed for the killer than for the victim...
...screen, a swirling storm cloud slowly twists itself into the characteristic funnel shape of a killer tornado. On another, molecules the size of baseballs jostle frantically for position, each seeking out a comfortable docking site on another's surface. On a third screen, a small child in bright white diapers rises on stubby legs and toddles across a room...
...much more. It believes, like J.D., that "the extreme always seems to make an impression." Its language is extreme -- a voluptuously precise lexicon of obscene put-downs and dry ironies -- and so is its scenario, which adjusts the teenpix format to accommodate subjects as bleak as copycat suicides and killer peer pressure. Heathers finds laughs in these maladies without making fun of them because Waters writes from inside teenagers. He knows what makes them miserable and what makes them bad: that they are already adults but can't accept the fact. "Why are you such a megabitch?" Veronica asks...