Word: killers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard band played extended versions of "Only the Good Die Young" and "Psycho Killer" to keep itself awake. For lack of anything better to do, people actually listened...
...Penalty killer...
Medical researchers have long known that taking regular doses of aspirin lowers the incidence of heart attack in some people with cardiovascular disease, the nation's leading killer. In study after study since the 1960s, however, they have sought to determine whether aspirin can help prevent heart trouble in healthy individuals. The results have been mixed: while some studies showed that aspirin decreased the number of attacks, others failed to demonstrate any benefit at all. Last week a report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that taking one aspirin every other day dramatically reduced the risk...
...Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment (fiscal 1987 revenues: $9.4 billion) has moved up swiftly with its VAX model by selling machines twice as fast as IBM's at about half the cost. Hoping to retaliate, IBM developed a minimainframe computer, the file cabinet-size 9370, which was dubbed the "VAX killer," a rare signal of Big Blue's anxiety about a smaller competitor. But IBM's new machine has lacked sufficient software to be fully competitive against the now entrenched VAX. IBM sold fewer than 5,000 of its VAX killers last year, far from a knock-'em-dead performance...
...life viragoes as Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman. Baxt's comic turn mingles the actual and the imaginary like a pun-obsessed spin-off of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and has a similarly political bent. Set in 1952, it sketches deft parallels between the paranoia induced by a serial killer and the mania generated by McCarthy-era blacklisting. The plot is merely serviceable and the cast of characters sprawling rather than sharply defined, but the machine-gun barrage of witticisms from its formidable ladies is either a well-researched compendium of bons mots or a wholly convincing imitation...