Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OUTSIDERS (SUNDAYS, 7 p.m. EDT, FOX). TV has discovered a new genre: working-class romanticism. First came Elvis, with its nostalgic retelling of the King's early rise from blue-collar boredom to Top 40 stardom. Now Francis Coppola has turned his 1983 movie about Oklahoma teenagers (based on the S.E. $ Hinton novel) into a lyrical, lovingly crafted TV series. Class conflict is the theme: the three Curtis brothers, scraping along together after the death of their parents, are part of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks crowd known as the Greasers. Their snooty, letter-sweatered antagonists are called...
...Lynch has a Boy Scout's cherubic face and nice manners. His conversation is filled with wholesome jargon like "thrilling" and "cool." But eccentricities lurk just beneath the surface. He always keeps his shirt collar buttoned to the top because "I have this thing about my neck. It's just an eerie kind of feeling about my collarbone." For seven years he drank milkshakes every day at a Bob's Big Boy in Los Angeles. "I'd have coffee, sometimes six cups, along with the shake, and I'd have sugar in my coffee," he says. "By then I would...
...there a moral to this event? Only the obvious one: that we owe it to the sanctimonious, inflated racket that the art industry has become. The theft is the blue-collar side of the glittering system whereby art, through the '80s, was promoted into crass totems of excess capital. Sotheby's and Christie's tacitly recognized this last week when, after conferring with the museum board and the FBI, they volunteered the $1 million reward money for the Gardner -- a touching p.r. gesture, like a cigarette company giving money to a cancer ward...
Last year President Bush pledged "every effort" to lock up the white- collar criminals who had helped cause the nation's savings and loan disaster. Indeed, with studies showing that insider misconduct has contributed to 60% to 75% of all thrift failures, the search for banking's bad guys is one of the largest criminal manhunts in U.S. history. But, like Bush's war on drugs, the war on S&Ls has completely overwhelmed prosecutors and investigators. There are more than 3,500 major criminal cases pending, yet 1,500 of them are inactive and gathering dust. Indeed, the backlog...
...pinched face, his Pillsbury Doughboy silhouette and his air of befuddled skepticism, he looks as if he'd be lucky to land a night manager's job at a 7-Eleven. Moore might even pass for what he is: the novice director of a documentary film about blue- collar unemployment. So why did 2,000 folks stand in line for hours last week in Flint, Mich., to ask him questions, throw verbal brickbats or cheer him on? Why has his movie Roger & Me stoked debate that has spilled from the entertainment pages into the news columns? And why is General...