Word: edgier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hughes' second film, The Breakfast Club, the mood is edgier and more combative: you and you and you and you and me against the whole rotten adult world. Five high schoolers--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a beatnik (Ally Sheedy) and a princess (Molly)-- spend a Saturday in detention. All they have in common are secret sins, an ache for camaraderie and a festering resentment of parental and school domination. There is little music, not much action, just kids sitting around talking. Good talk, though. The brain, ragged by the rebel...
...hush was of a different, edgier kind when the Marine Corps captain and sergeant stepped up to the suburban Baltimore apartment with news of Lance Corporal Davin Green. His mother had utterly persuaded herself that Davin, 20, was a survivor. "How do you know it's really him," she protested after the men delivered their message, "if he's all blown to pieces?" Days later, her daughter-in-law was refusing to concede she was a widow. "I know he's not dead," said Deborah Green, 19, whom Davin married 48 hours before shipping out for Beirut...
...financial markets hate surprises. For that reason Wall Street was even edgier than usual on the eve of a crucial mid-term election that might generate a sudden shake-up in national economic policy. But when the news came from the polls that the Republicans had kept control of the Senate and lost no more House seats than expected the New York Stock Exchange was overwhelmed by relief-and euphoria...