Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy harnessed the brain trust," says Ryden. Speculation about who would be the next pick for the Kennedy cabinet ravaged the Yard and nearly all such speculations turned out right...
...traditional, sniffed "nose candy" is no match for crack. NIDA estimates that an addiction to regular coke develops after three to four years, while crack abusers are usually hooked after only six to ten weeks. A snort of classic coke penetrates the mucous membranes slowly, circulating to the brain in about eight minutes and producing a high, much milder than crack's, that lasts for 20 minutes or so. Crack is absorbed rapidly through the lungs and hits the brain within seconds in a dangerous, concentrated form...
...class family that was shaken by trauma. Sheedy's parents separated when she was nine, and she spent the rest of her childhood shuttling between two households nine blocks apart in Manhattan, never knowing where she had left her sneakers. Bonham Carter's father, a merchant banker, suffered a brain tumor when she was 13, and was paralyzed when an operation to remove it went wrong. Her family rallied, and both her father and her mother, a psychotherapist, now take an amused pleasure in her success. But it was her own reaction at the time that is astonishing. Apparently feeling...
...Hughes' second film, The Breakfast Club, the mood is edgier and more combative: you and you and you and you and me against the whole rotten adult world. Five high schoolers--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a beatnik (Ally Sheedy) and a princess (Molly)-- spend a Saturday in detention. All they have in common are secret sins, an ache for camaraderie and a festering resentment of parental and school domination. There is little music, not much action, just kids sitting around talking. Good talk, though. The brain, ragged by the rebel...
...fellow next to you has an analog watch, you might not even have to ask him. You simply lean over, and by noticing the general arrangement of the watch's hands, you know where you are in the day, even before the exact time registers in your brain as a number...