Word: everyman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still party like it's 1999. As Will Smith says, "You can sell an alien attack better than the old days when you could see the zipper on the back of the alien's costume." Minute by minute, though, things look mighty familiar. If Forrest Gump was Everyman, ID4 is Everymovie, a browse through the whole film catalog: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Strangelove, Close Encounters, Alien, Top Gun, 2001, Apollo...
...precisely because of these uncensored recollections and the insights they arouse that the memoir of an honest man often reveals more than the author intends or recognizes. Morrow's luminous study of self, spurred by a medical crisis, strikes an unexpectedly universal chord. Every man is Everyman, and so the author deals not only with the inner torment of Lance Morrow but also with that...
...them. Wilson, in fact, lives in a shake-roof ranch house in suburban east Sacramento. He barbecues, plays the piano, exercises on a StairMaster in the spare bedroom, shops for videos at the Arden Fair mall and travels economy class on commercial flights. He is the suburban Everyman...
...here's a happy scene: a dozen glamorous models wearing cherry-red smocks are cooing contentedly in a dim room, hunched over Virtual Boy, Nintendo's long-awaited, low-cost virtual-reality rig for Everyman. Or Everyboy. Or Everygirl. Whatever. The women are learning how to demonstrate it, fooling around with a prototype of a boxing video game. ("Face down in the goggles, please. That's it. Click here to throw a right, there to throw a left, and don't forget to duck!") But hurry. It's 7:30 a.m., and the wide glass doors are about to swing...
...record quarterly profits, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler are trumpeting a sweeping redesign of their smaller models. Now hitting showrooms % is a new type of compact, one that approximates the flowing, sculpted looks and sheer drivability usually found only in sports and luxury cars -- in short, a kind of Everyman's Porsche. Ford's Contour and Mercury Mystique, Chrysler's Cirrus and Dodge Stratus, and GM's retooled Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire will feature from 120 to 170 h.p. (vs. 90 or under for many older compacts). Formerly upscale-only features like dual air bags, antilock brakes and automatic...