Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...booth, Madden has a fresh eye and a sense of mischief, but in between all the sound effects, he tells you something you didn't know. "When Reagan got shot, they had this doctor on TV, and he explained the surgical procedure with a diagram. This thing goes in here, that thing goes in there. The blood . . . boom, bam. I thought, 'Yeah, I get it. I understand.' You can't simplify complicated things, but you can make them understandable...
...though only a high school student at the time, was also in Chicago for the convention. Much to his parents' consternation, he had traveled there from his hometown of New Orleans. Only later would he learn that his parents had asked friends in the Louisiana delegation to keep an eye on their 16-year-old son. "I had the feeling it was going to be a historic event and wanted to be there," says Isaacson. "My feelings about the world, like those of many people my age, were shaped considerably by the events...
...undergraduate named Richard Ross in what Ellmann asserts (surprisingly, in view of the Wilde legend) was his first homosexual experience. After that, Wilde's imagination caught fire. He wrote essays (The Decay of Lying, The Soul of Man Under Socialism) and reviews that kept him constantly before the public eye. Lady Windermere's Fan, the first of his plays to be performed in London, was a smash. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, scandalized critics and became the anthem of the decadent fin-de-siecle 1890s. This book was, as Ellmann notes, a "tragedy of aestheticism," a cautionary tale...
...over. I don't know how I'm going to feel a month from now, or when the summer starts to get hot, or when the World Series comes around. I wonder what it's going to be like, never again seeing that look in the batter's eye with the bases loaded...
...film spins a fantasy of irreverence and lost innocence. Mostly, it puts its star behind an Armed Forces Radio mike to devise some stratospheric ad libs. The monologues, the English lessons for Vietnamese students and Adrian's chat with a truckload of G.I.s were all improvised under the astute eye of Director Barry Levinson. "Barry lets you be free," Williams notes, "but not so free you're floundering. He sets up these little cones, like the ones they put on the freeway. If you knock one over...