Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...borrowings from Risky Business abound. The theft is evident immediately in the Tangerine Dream style opening score. By the time we hear the "Mannish Boy" of Muddy Waters accompanying the sports car's emergence from the house garage and the Epicurean philosophizing of Curtis Armstrong, who is again teaching his friend how to say "What the fuck," we know we are witnessing full-scale felony...
...leftover from another teen comedy, John Cusack, as Lane Meyer, seems uniquely inappropriate after his boisterous role in The Sure Thing to play someone on the down side of teen life. In another dimension, where teen comedies all have good script writers, the pairing of Cusack and Armstrong might have been relatively magical, something like proto-Belushi meets proto-Murray. Instead, they are confined to gags that only a teen messiah could save, and only a child could enjoy. Hopefully, Cusack's role in the Disney flick The Journey of Natty Gann turns out better...
...Coke is doing. The sketchy numbers out so far are distorted by the enormous publicity over the taste change. So swiftly did the word spread, says Coke, that 81% of the U.S. population knew of it within 24 hours, more people than were aware in July 1969 that Neil Armstrong had walked on the moon. By now, says Dyson, fully 96% of Americans, or 225 million people, know that Coke has altered its taste...
DIED. Jack Armstrong, 74, the real (though Canadian-born) All-American Boy whose name was used for the boldhearted teenage radio hero of the '30s and '40s and who himself went on to become a worthy, if merely life-size, embodiment of his plucky namesake, serving as a much decorated U.S. Air Force officer and helping to oversee the development of atomic-powered satellites; in Laguna Niguel, Calif. The radio serial, which was largely sponsored by Wheaties, got the name for the fictional stalwart of Hudson High from a General Mills executive who had been a college fraternity brother...
...largely symbolic. To get it, Dole had promised New York's Alfonse D'Amato and Florida's Paula Hawkins, both Republicans, that he would offer an amendment knocking out any limitations on cost of living (COLA) increases for Social Security recipients. Warned Colorado Republican William Armstrong: "It's a killer amendment . . . a wrecker amendment. It sets the stage for unraveling the whole package." Dole offered the amendment even though he opposed it; he knew that Democrats were poised to introduce the same vote-getting measure and preferred to let Republicans take the credit. The COLA restoration carried...