Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sullenly sexy ensemble come-on in Big Spender, and Allen's sprightly, sprawling solo to If My Friends Could See Me Now. Although Allen belts out the songs and adapts capably to Fosse's jagged, staccato movements, she utterly lacks Charity's doormat vulnerability. Unless she has that quality, '80s audiences may find it hard to believe in, let alone respect, a woman so ready to let men push her around. -- W.A.H...
...traditional response is student apathy. These are the quietist '80s: and these specimens, ladies and gentlemen, are today's college students, so obsessed with their career prospects that they won't lift a finger for the ideals they probably no longer even cherish...
...braces, three days shy of 19, Ellison instantly followed the shot into the basket and before long followed the basket to the foul line. Two calm free throws topped off his 25-point performance, good for the Most Valuable Player trophy, and the Cardinals' second title of the '80s. "What's the MVP," Ellison asked beautifully, "when you've got the national championship?" Not since the '50s and Bill Mlkvy, Temple's renowned "Owl-Without-a-Vowel," has basketball identified a hero as charmingly as "Never Nervous" Pervis. At the same time, not since UCLA and John Wooden have...
...comedy-drama. Life and death, both contrived, salt the plot; the dialogue freezes in the actors' mouths like psychobabble on a stick; the picture remains immune even to another silk-purse performance by Lahti, the American cinema's best hope for a smart, mature, vulnerable funny woman of the '80s. Mary Tyler Moore carried that standard handsomely through the '70s in a sitcom co-created by Allan Burns, who wrote and directed Just Between Friends. To see them flail here is like running into your dream girl a decade later and finding out she sells Herbalife...
...subtlety, drama and emotion may have been left back in the 19th century, but Keshishian's adaptation is a fast-paced, techno-pop extravaganza. It's not deep but it's solid, homespun student theater '80s style...