Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's no business like show business, even when it comes to off-screen commercial disputes. In a settlement that left Hollywood somewhat breathless last week, Warner Bros. and Sony Corp. ended their two-month battle over the services of Peter Guber and Jon Peters, the megahit producers of Batman and Rain Man. Warner agreed to release Guber, 47, and Peters, 44, from a five-year contract, thereby permitting Sony to hire the pair to run Columbia Pictures Entertainment, which the Japanese firm is acquiring for $3.4 billion. In return, Sony ceded entertainment assets to Warner Bros. that analysts estimated...
...many investors, the most disturbing aspect of the Wall Street slide was its breathless speed. "We have a history of market bubbles and panics," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Company Economic Advisors. "But because of the advance in communications, corrections that used to take days, weeks or months now take minutes. Any positive or negative events get communicated in seconds." Sinai added that while "a drop of 190 points is shocking and a source of great anxiety and nervousness, it doesn't suggest that the sky is going to fall. The lesson of 1987 is that financial...
...thinking of nursing the baby while you are in the hospital?" asked I.A.C. counselor Debbie Parelskin one afternoon. The conference room became very quiet, breathless. The last time this subject came up, negotiations broke down...
This permissive mind-set colors my instinctive response to current drug problems. The initial breathless media reports of the crack epidemic aroused all my journalistic skepticism, and I groused that the antidrug frenzy seemed like Reefer Madness revisited. On those infrequent occasions when friends and acquaintances still pass around a bootleg joint, my reaction remains benign tolerance. Just a few weeks ago, when marijuana made a furtive appearance at my wife's 20th high school reunion in upstate New York, I viewed this throwback gesture as a quaint affectation, almost as if the class of '69 had all shown...
Extraordinary? Yes. Unexpected? Hardly. These days, events in Eastern Europe are so topsy-turvy that bloc uniformity seems to have given way to a breathless rush of uneven developments. In Hungary, where a multiparty system is in the works, Communist Party chief Karoly Grosz reportedly announced that < he was prepared to step down, a move that was interpreted as a victory for reformers. In East Germany the government sought to rid itself of malcontents by handing out unprecedented numbers of exit permits, while thousands of other unhappy citizens simply fled over the Hungarian border. In Poland the Communist Party Politburo...