Word: bikers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years in which she played a succession of teenyboppers, Diane Lane, 19, has graduated. For her next role in Streets of Fire, a film that is being billed as a "rock-'n'-roll fantasy," Lane portrays an adult singer who is kidnaped by a gang of biker-thugs. "Hormones have happened," explains Lane. "I'm past the growing-up stage." In Lane's most recent movie, Rumble Fish, she was saddled with the unbecoming part of a wayward outsider, a tough adolescent in tarty makeup. Says she: "I can't tell you how happy...
...Your daughter home? Tell her that it's Biker...
Glorification of the Criminal and the Bizarre. "We put the funeral of the head of a biker gang on Page One and relegate the funeral of a civic leader to the death page . . . The readers don't like to see the actions of a few protesters being given front-page play. Too often they feel the opinions of the majority are given scant attention...
...Drug signs everywhere from Antarctica to the Taj Mahal. The drugstore has even paid for advertising signs in Amsterdam, Paris and London. In the end, all these signs produce enough curiosity to attract even the most blase passerby. "I just had to stop," said a long-haired, leather-jacketed biker from Beloit, Wis., on his way to a motorcycle rally in the Black Hills. "This is all I've been reading for the past 200 miles...
...that's closer to falling out of a moving car than it is real adventure. Hell, Father's isn't even around anymore. Now it's some archery place. The guy behind the counter smirks openly at you. Buy the magazine. And you're not even anywhere near the biker and pornography rack...