Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vancouver is one of the most serene big cities in North America, as well as one of the most polite. Its climate, much like Seattle's, is cool and moist and is as hospitable to tourists as it is to flowers, the regiments of tulips and carpets of pansies that are seen everywhere. The fair's original purpose was to mark the centennial of the opening of the Canadian transcontinental railway. A more practical goal was to boost the ailing economy of British Columbia. But now it is benefiting from a larger circumstance. In a world frightened by terrorism, this...
...glove compartment is so stuffed with tapes it won't close, and the back seat is littered with the plastic placentas of cassette containers. The bikers and pink-haired punkettes hanging out in front of Tower Records recognize Molly even before she parks, but the mode is cool: a slow nod, a thin smile and distance. In one corner of the store, David Lee Roth, the motor-mouthing rock star, signs autographs, but Molly is too shy to approach him. Instead, she gets down to business, striking surgically at every rack in the store: rock, pop, jazz, country, blues...
Even if Casey persists, the final say on prosecution belongs to Attorney General Edwin Meese. At the moment, Justice Department lawyers are cool to the idea. "We're not hot to trot on this thing," says one Justice official. That lack of enthusiasm is mirrored on Capitol Hill by lawmakers who deal regularly with the CIA. Says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence: "When you go after press organizations, you're treating the symptoms rather than the problem...
...illegitimate coed group worried what their floater would think. "We were worried he'd be a real prude and he'd tell the senior tutor if I didn't move out," says "Debbie." "He turned out to be cool, but we were really nervous for a while...
...Bogart-Bacall-Robinson-plus-Claire Trevor and Lionel Barrymore powerhouse directed and co-written by action-meister Huston. This was no 1940s period piece, taut and tawdry and black and white all over. No way. Instead, Blue City is the latest in what modern-day Hollywood sees as the cool, hip, where-it's-at youth picture, more empty-headed boredom passed off as the happeningest style...