Word: affair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that emulated Porky's. Cruise did time in a dim comedy, Losin' It (1982), about some lads who visit Tijuana to mislay their virginity; he played the sensitive one. From its plot synopsis, Risky Business (1983) promised more of the lame same. An affluent high school senior has an affair with a hooker (Rebecca de Mornay), dunks the family Porsche in Lake Michigan, turns his house into a brothel and still gets into Princeton. Sounds like the Reagan era in miniature. But there was wit in Paul Brickman's script and swank in his camera style. For Cruise, there...
...painter who endeavors to "put his old life to an end" by stealing his girlfriend's car and setting out from Florida to reclaim the Montana ranch left to him by his father. As the plot progresses to its ironic denouement, Joe courts his teenage sweetheart, rekindles a love affair with the land and comes to terms with some family ghosts -- both dead and alive. Like most McGuane protagonists, Starling is at a gallop between his past and future, an existential cowboy with good intentions and bad habits, determined to take his spiritual malaise by the horns and shake some...
...Shelton (Bull Durham) directs Blaze with plenty of pungent wit, but from a high, disinterested view. He never gets steam into the affair. Paul Newman approaches Earl from the outside too, as a growly-bear clown who doesn't realize he's King Lear. Lolita Davidovich, making the most of her first big break, plays Blaze as a sensible, loving career gal with an overripe body. But the picture is not mainly about sex or even love; it is about an aging man's loss of sexual, political and personal power...
...chief restorer, Gianluigi Colalucci, concedes that future computers will recall in an instant visual information that used to require years of research, including, he adds with a laugh, "the errors we are making now." But more important, the restoration marked the beginning of the Italian art establishment's love affair with technology. Nowadays, computers linked up to gamma-ray detectors, infrared cameras and thermographic sensors are turning up in art-restoration projects all across Italy, from the vast ruins of Pompeii to the crowded workshops of Venice. In tasks ranging from simple cataloging to advanced image processing, the new technology...
...government had been under growing pressure to take action since the hit- squad affair burst onto the front pages of the country's newspapers in October. At that time a prisoner on death row, former policeman Butana Almond Nofomela, alleged that he had been part of a team that "eliminated" Mxenge in 1981. After being named in Nofomela's affidavit, former police captain Dirk Coetzee went public in the weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad with a story of how he headed a police hit squad between 1980 and 1982 that carried out at least nine assassinations, including that of Mxenge...