Word: blends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry sits glumly waiting for the next big thing, too timid to try something new. For Hollywood, oldies are goodies. In 1985 five of the top ten moneymakers were sequels; the rest were a familiar blend of fantasy, comedy, spy and cop genres. Warns Guy McElwaine, who runs Columbia Pictures: "There's never any such thing as paying too much attention to the bottom line. If you don't make money, you aren't going to make movies." Right now, though, the sort of movie that makes money--perhaps as much as $1 billion over five years--lasts half...
Flat noodles like lasagne are forced between metal rollers that approximate the action of a rolling pin. Cut in proper lengths, pasta dries in warmers for seven hours and is then cooled before being packed in printed cellophane bags. The only additions to the basic semolina and water blend are vitamin enrichments required in certain states, including New York, California and Connecticut. (They are, in fact, added to all pasta shipped...
...tree, and speeches palpably differ from authentically aimless conversation. What makes a set seem real, what enables dialogue to stand for experience is the writer's capacity to create an alternative world, distinctively his own, and lure audiences into it. That talent is the true measure of voice, a blend of personality and vision...
...when the line was introduced, California-based Mattel has sold some 125 million creatures, or an average of eleven of them to each boy in the U.S. between the ages of five and ten. Children collect the 6-in. plastic figures ($5 to $7), whose personalities reflect a blend of medieval and outer-space themes, in order to enact imaginary battles between good and evil. The virtuous leader is He-Man, who fights a never-ending crusade against wicked Skeletor. So far, Mattel has produced 34 other characters, six companion creatures, nine vehicles and three hideouts. This season's oddest...
Most movie tie-ins are quickie paperbacks. But the current release of Out of Africa (see CINEMA) has led to Isak Dinesen's Africa (Sierra Club; 142 pages; $35), an enticing blend of passages from the memoirs that inspired the film and photographs that powerfully evoke the countryside. Baroness Karen Blixen lived from 1913 to 1931 in the highlands of what is now Kenya, then returned to Denmark, where under the pen name Isak Dinesen she recalled her former home in prose as direct and luminous as the land: "Mombasa has all the look of a picture of Paradise, painted...