Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sounds cool. What school...
...COOL to be middle-aged. The same generation that 15-odd years ago in its flaming youth stole the stage is now dragging culture-consumers of all ages and sensibilities through its mid-life crisis. The children of Marx and Coca-Cola, as Godafd described them in his wonderful 1966 film Masculin-Feminin, are now the adults of EST and Perrier. And their movies--An Unmarried Woman, The Goodbye Girl, Kramer Versus Kramer, and now Shoot the Moon--are self-centered and, mostly, boring. Television is now catching on, with ABC offering a TV-movie that cashes in on both...
...economic scene, however, is not uniformly bad. The Federal Reserve's policy, along with the recession, has brought down inflation far more rapidly than expected. The pace of consumer price hikes slowed from 12.4% in 1980 to 8.9% in 1981. TIME's economists forecast that inflation will cool further to 6.5% this year. The progress is partly a result of bumper grain crops and the worldwide oil glut, which have moderated food and energy prices. More important, the slump has prodded many unions, from the Teamsters to the United Auto Workers, to scale back their wage demands. Said...
...rarefied heights of Bel Air, Calif., Charlie's Angel turned Madonna Jaclyn Smith, 35, enjoys the seventh month of her pregnancy in the cool interior of her eleven-room minimansion. She became pregnant shortly after portraying Jacqueline Kennedy in a television movie. "I would put on the maternity padding to play Jackie Kennedy," she says, "and it felt so right. I found myself whispering, 'I wish, I wish...
...glance in the mirror, an adjustment, then a look around. He: meets her look, then his limit. Enough. The proceedings must conclude. He searches for something cool and dismissive, settles on an old favorite. "Come on," he says, perhaps even loud enough for the sales staff to hear. "That thing makes you look pregnant...