Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's got into moviemakers lately, that they are so enthusiastically trashing their most genteel patrons? Bob Balaban's recent comedy Parents, a kind of robin's-egg Blue Velvet, limned a '50s family, as placid and telegenic as the Andersons on Father Knows Best, that devours human flesh. Now Middle America gets a return visit from Joe Dante, guerrilla terrorist in Spielbergian suburbia. His Gremlins was a comic nightmare in which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves...
...BOB DYLAN AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD: DYLAN & THE DEAD (Columbia). Live recordings from the summer tour two years ago. Casual, lovely and intense, with a particularly astute reworking of Dylan's great tune I Want...
Meanwhile, harsh sentiment against the refugees is growing. "Nobody knows who all these people are," says Brownsville trailer-court owner Bob White. "They could be terrorists, or bandits, or typhoid carriers." Harlingen Mayor Bill Card says his city decided to expel the INS from a registration post to send a signal to the Bush Administration that the area needs more help from Washington. Says he: "We have not been able to get the cooperation and attention of the Federal Government...
...think Charlotte Joslin and [freshman Bev] Stickles are really outstanding players," Princeton Coach Bob Ewell said. "Our success has been scoring goals. We usually generate a lot of shots, and they did a lot to shut down our players...
...station predominantly reaches (and thus the potential audience for each commercial). That is why, for example, Marriott since June has opened 14 branches of Allie's in San Diego (where San'wiches is also being tested). Only after such saturation will Chairman J.W. Marriott Jr. convert more of his Bob's Big Boys, as well as Wag's and Howard Johnsons, to the new theme...