Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Contacts are out. Coke bottle glasses are back in. Hang onto those straight-legged, look-like-they-never-left-the-store Levis. But remember, no button flies. Ever. Pocket protectors are out. The pen behind the ear look is in. Other accessories: none (Mr. Premed doesn't waste his time with accessories...
Attention baby boomer: you're not a kid anymore. Lee's ads poke gentle fun at this, ah, growing market. We've all been there. Dad sits down to watch TV in his old jeans and his top button flies off, ricocheting around the room like a bullet. A woman struggling to get into her too tight jeans keeps her date waiting so long that he meets and marries her roommate. If only she'd had Easy Riders...
...both her decision and Dr. Kevorkian's role. Last April, when he finally reached Kevorkian, they spoke very briefly. Kevorkian asked that he write a letter explaining his situation, which Gary did, very, very slowly. I'm able on a computer with one hand and arm to touch one button at a time. I wrote the letter and addressed it. He wrote back to me. He was very sympathetic and felt a genuine sorrow for what had happened...
...Your Man, which opened last week in New York, is a high-tech picture puzzle that allows an audience to pick its protagonist and plot the action. Choices come along every 90 seconds or so in this campy 20- minute caper, and viewers vote with a three-button pistol grip installed on their armrests. The on-screen tallies are instantaneous, thanks to laser-disc technology, and the majority rules. This first film (soon in seven more theaters), has 68 possible permutations. The result is a high-decibel headache . . . or funfest, depending on your age and inclinations...
Last night, in a speech that touched on most hot-button sexual issues, the noted sex therapist voiced support for alternative sexuality, abortion rights and school health clinics. She railed against bestiality and Norplant, a contraceptive device which is implanted in womens' arms...