Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inevitable T shirts are emblazoned with slogans that range from < straightforward (THE POPE IS COMING) to egregious (POPE MCKENZIE, THE ORIGINAL VATICAN ANIMAL, an unauthorized play on the Budweiser ad). In Detroit, one of the hottest items is a $2 button of John Paul sporting a Detroit Tigers cap with the caption BLESS YOU BOYS. The prize for the most spectacularly tasteless souvenir goes to a Detroit firm that is marketing a $55, 30-in.-high aluminum Pope-shaped lawn sprinkler, called Let Us Spray. Not everyone is afflicted with the commercial bug. Some ticket brokers thought scalping for papal...
...father Roscoe has Parkinson's disease. Beverly, 19, who functions at a second-grade level intellectually, is pleasant and mannerly, but she is shy. Townspeople collected enough money to send her mother and two women coaches along for support. Last Tuesday afternoon she hit her start on the button and ran a fast 8.7 50-meter dash, her personal best by 1.9 seconds, good enough for a bronze medal. Her head coach, Sandy Davis, was so choked up he couldn't talk straight...
...bargain-basement suits and button-down, short-sleeve shirts, Dukakis offers the Democrats neither charisma nor quixotic causes. Instead, he is running as the Lee Iacocca of state government: the Governor who brought the Massachusetts economy back from the dead. True, a Harvard study concluded that, at most, state government "may have helped sustain the growth once it began." And even Frank Keefe, Dukakis' secretary of administration and finance, claims only that the Governor's policies are responsible for 20% of the drop in state unemployment...
Like a general getting his troops psyched for battle, Oliver Stone glared across the littered landscape of buy and sell orders, coffee cups, telephones and blinking green computer monitors. "Remember," the director of Platoon ordered the brigade of button-down young actors, "you're supposed to be making money." Loads of it, in fact. The Viet Nam soldier turned Oscar- winning filmmaker was on location in New York City to film Wall Street, a $15 million 20th Century-Fox production about the rise and fall of an ambitious young stockbroker, starring Charlie Sheen, his father Martin, Daryl Hannah and Michael...
With this splendid first 45 minutes of his new film, Stanley Kubrick reenters the real world. For a quarter-century the reclusive director has hit the cerebral fantasy button, in Pentagon war rooms (Dr. Strangelove), in outer and inner space (2001: A Space Odyssey), in the nightmare future (A Clockwork Orange), in the duplicitous past (Barry Lyndon) and down the endless bloody corridors of a deranged mind (The Shining). Now he's back. Full Metal Jacket is not a realistic film -- it is horror-comic superrealism, from a God's-eye view -- but it should fully engage the ordinary movie...