Word: flat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mollywood Ending No. 1: she got the part. To help this budding Valley Girl pass as a New York teenager, Mazursky set Molly and her parents up in a Greenwich Village flat. "It was bizarre after California," she grimaces. "Like, people urinating in the hallways." Still, she did fine. Mollywood Ending No. 2: she won critics' raves, a Golden Globe nomination and the particular attention of John Hughes, a screenwriter who was looking to direct a story about teenagers...
...bright glow is rising above Silicon Valley's gloomy horizon. In a computer industry plagued by layoffs and flat revenues, Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, Calif., has achieved phenomenal growth. Founded only four years ago, Sun boosted sales from $8 million in fiscal 1983 to $115 million in 1985. Over the same period, annual profits surged from $654,000 to $8.5 million. Run by Scott McNealy, 31, Andreas Bechtolsheim, 30, and William Joy, 31, a trio of workaholic wunderkinder, the company shows signs of staying power in a business in which success is often fleeting...
...wondering how they will muster enough energy to give their children more than just a good-night kiss. It helps that more men are willing to lend a hand with housework and child rearing. Even so, men are far more likely than women to have it both ways, both flat-out career and kids. Anthropologist Patricia McBroom, who teaches women's studies at Rutgers, cites research that shows that 60% of executive women have no children, vs. only 3% of their male counterparts...
...enforcement," the marshal said,"or they're gonna let the riffraff take over the town." For his part, no matter whether he is reappointed for two more years this fall, the man is stuck on Tombstone. The other day, he traded his Winnebago and a 1948 diamond- studded, flat-top Gibson guitar for a 65-ft. mobile home. "I ain't leaving," he said, removing the wheels...
...production includes seven costume changes and features Rigby's good-natured takeoffs on Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Patti LaBelle and Debby Boone. Rigby finds shaking a leg more enjoyable than doing flips. "With singing," she says, "there's more room to have fun." Sure, but you can still fall flat on your face...