Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves and in their country that they have not possessed since the death of John Kennedy. And he is the first President since F.D.R. to alter the debate over what the role of government should be. As one keeps score in the art of the possible, that is not bad...
...story about people who try to be ruthless, but turn out to have soft spots and warm hearts after all. There are rich people who are bad, poor people who are exploited--i.e. good--dumb cops, dumb blondes, dumb dogs and a lot of other classic on-screen stereotypes which for some reason make audiences laugh as if they haven't seen this movie every summer since they sneaked into their first R-rated movie...
...reversal of traditional good guy and bad guy roles theme reappears as we get to know the kidnappers better. The happy couple is too scared and too nice to kill Mrs. Stone (Bette Midler), so they keep lowering the ransom price, until Mrs. Stone complains she's been "kidnapped by K-mart." In the end, however, their niceness triumphs; Sandy's sincerity and her ballgown designs win the heart of the bitchy Mrs. Stone, and they all band together against the real villain, Mr. Stone...
Midler insults her kidnappers and bounces up and down in time with TV exercise programs with real spunk, although even that deteriorates by the end of the movie, when she kicks her husband into the water in a bad imitation of Abbott and Costello...
...summoned to the White House for an interview with the President. Reagan got on well with the affable Justice, but the President was worried about Rehnquist's health. Five years ago Rehnquist was hospitalized to overcome an addiction to a powerful painkiller he had been taking for his chronically bad back. At the time, court employees noticed that Rehnquist's speech was slurred and that he seemed to be having mental lapses. In his interview with Reagan, however, Rehnquist volunteered that he had long since kicked his addiction and could offer a clean bill of health from his doctors. Somewhat...