Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...borrow her underpants. The plot, which will be reprised in Pretty in Pink, is familiar from schlock immemorial, but Hughes' acute ear for teen talk makes it fresh and funny. Listen to Sam and her girlfriend Randy (Liane Curtis) wax ironic on every girl's dream for the day she turns sweet 16: "There'd be a big party, and a band and tons of people, and a pink Trans Am in the driveway with a ribbon around it, and some incredibly gorgeous guy that you meet, like in France, and you do it on a cloud without getting pregnant...
...Hemingway had completed this romance, perhaps Catherine would have had more than two dimensions. The first is what Edmund Wilson called "the all- too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." The second hinges on the age-old view of woman as the cause of original sin. Catherine is a spoiler whose taste in forbidden fruit threatens the private Eden of David's art. It is the place where he struggles with his own lost innocence...
...taste, music and sexual mores. "Because of their numbers and their approach to life, Baby Boomers are setting standards for the rest of us," says Jane Fitzgibbon, director of research development for the Ogilvy & Mather ad agency. But in other areas, a lot of shadows have fallen between the dream and the reality...
Such cocktail-circuit horror stories were accompanied by panicky fears that the American dream of home ownership was becoming illusory. In fact, statistics show that by scraping and borrowing, most Baby Boom families eventually managed to buy at least a modest dwelling. In 1983 nearly half of all young families owned their homes, about the same proportion as a decade earlier. Many a down payment came from parents; Rutgers University Housing Economist George Sternlieb quips that Baby Boomers have popularized a new form of G.I. financing: "G.I. as in Good In-laws...
...happened so fast. One minute, the long-cherished dream of streamlining and simplifying the cumbersome U.S. tax system seemed moribund, unable to withstand the hordes of lobbyists and influence peddlers arrayed against it. Then, shortly after midnight last Wednesday, the entire Senate Finance Committee was on its feet roundly applauding the chairman, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood. In the committee's offices down the hall, jubilant committee staffers uncorked a case of champagne. In an auditorium downstairs where the deliberations were heard on an intercom, an overflow crowd of lobbyists hissed...