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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time to go home. Relax. Work on Wall Street. Sleep. Reread that sourcebook article you found so fascinating the first time. Like the sagacious Run in the Run-DMC film Krush Groove, you're breakin...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Breakin' Out 'Til Next Year | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

After a disappointing .500 season, the Harvard men's lacrosse team (7-7 overall, 2-4 Ivy) will be breakin' out, too. Breakin' out the sticks. Breakin' out the weights. Next year will be different...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Breakin' Out 'Til Next Year | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

Only a year ago Cannon Group provoked sneers -- and envy -- in Hollywood with such low-brow but high-profit films as Death Wish 3 and Breakin'. Now the studio is a fallen star. Cannon is slashing its production schedule this year by more than 65%. The studio last month narrowly avoided filing for bankruptcy because of its debt load, which reached $200 million at the end of 1985. Warner Communications at least temporarily rescued the studio by investing $75 million in exchange for a 23% stake in Cannon stock and $25 million worth of company bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: Cannon Runs Low on Ammo | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

Rule Two is eating the right food. Generally, a good combination is granola and beer. This combines rugged "Grape Nuts" individuality with a puerile twist; just the off-balance pose the Allnightist should strike. This breaks Rule One, but then the Allnightist is a rule breakin' kind...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: The Right Stuff | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...office performance of last year's films. Black actors starred in three of 1983's six biggest hits: Eddie Murphy in Trading Places, Richard Pryor in Superman III and Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. This summer's two out-of-nowhere hits, the rap musical Breakin' and Prince's Purple Rain, suggest that movies with black themes can attract large mixed audiences. And yet these are a few glittering tokens; for most black actors and audiences, roles and role models are scarce. Though blacks constitute about 12% of the U.S. population and account for an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blues for Black Actors | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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