Word: decal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attractive performers move at a sprightly pace to the requisite two-record album of last year's hits that functions as the music track. But the vignettes that percolated between Crowe's soft covers are ironed into decal cliches on the screen Director Amy Heckerling has failed to provide the raunch or poignancy that would interest young moviegoers, all of whom have seen American Graffiti and its 467 imitators. Ridgemont High? A nice place to visit, but who would want to transfer there...
...Westerners and Easterners. He was in Pittsburgh not long ago, the same day the steel plants laid off more workers. He went with trepidation into a mill, only to be greeted by a big warm handshake from a smiling man in a hard hat pasted with a U.S. flag decal, cracked and peeling but, like the man, still holding...
...wadded-up Kleenex, a portable AM radio (antenna broken), a cardboard box full of old, yellowing T-shirts, and a paperback wedged in the crevice where windshield meets dashboard. Its title, Invade My Privacy, is fading fast in the sun. The auto's left rear fender sports an elaborate decal -- Blue Valentine -- the very same left rear fender emblazoned on the cover of Waits' thusly titled 1978 album. As Waits comments later, sitting in manager Herb Cohen's cloistered offices, "I couldn't afford a billboard, so I wrote...
...course it was grueling," one runner from Attleboro said. "It was even boring at first. But then the crowd picked me up. And the people who identified with the decal on my shirt (the Rolling Stones' red mouth-and-tongue) yelled for me. It was great...
...smile from one of the two men. The other sneers. The camera shows President Carter speaking with utter gravity, but the two men can't discern what he is saying because the correspondent talks over the sound, paraphrasing the President's words. More beer. A tank's Red Star decal grumbles past the screen in telephoto proportions, and yet another correspondent reports that an estimated 10,000 Soviet troops are gathering on the Iranian border, within striking range of potential petroleum products that fetch more than a dollar a gallon on the street...