Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Svengali, Jim Brooks knows how to create characters an audience can fall in love with. But on a TV series, relationships are never resolved; they are just continued next week. So Brooks concludes Broadcast News with a sitcom ellipsis, not a movie exclamation point. The movie ends, like the '80s perhaps, in resignation and anticlimax. Maybe no one believes in happy endings anymore, or even in endings. Maybe, after Bakker and Hart and Iranamuck, people are too cynical to care who gets the girl. But it is good to know that craftsmen like Brooks can create compelling, pertinent folks like...
...fact, America's shopping habit has become so ingrained that any lasting reversal may take a while. After the long-running, sunny times of the early '80s, many consumers feel little need for rainy-day reserves. Karen Peters, 43, of Orange, Calif., earns $48,000 a year as a county executive but typically keeps less than $1,000 in savings. On a recent trip to Santa Fe, she dropped $3,000 on a lithograph and a turquoise necklace. Says Peters, a widow who spends a portion of her income to help support her mother, 67, and daughter, 21: "Having money...
Wall Street and Broadcast News have enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s, but their subject is greed, '80s style. Charlie Sheen and William Hurt play an avid stockbroker and a laid- back TV journalist who have nothing on their minds but headlong success. Listen to their gaudy argot ! Watch them in perpetual motion ! They' ll be back at Oscar time...
...much doggery? Kitty Brown, editor of Animal Entertainment, a New York City trade publication, thinks the answer has a lot to do with the mood of the late '80s. "Times are tough," she says, "and we need a little innocence, something that hearkens back to childhood." Others might say that Hollywood hearkens to money: if one dog movie cashes in, ten imitations sprout up within a year...
...generous, hopeful time, produced terrible urban policy and dispiriting architecture, while in the '80s, a gilded, ungenerous age, the nation is saving buildings and repairing cities. An uncomfortable irony, but preservation is a conservative movement. Thus it carries with it a whiff of complacency...