Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frances Fox Piven, a City College of New York professor, urged an Emerson Hall audience of about 50 to fight the current welfare system, which she said intimidates and demoralizes recipients...
...that TV comedy is not incompatible with social commentary. Still, genre labels seem especially askew these days. Bruce Willis won this year's Emmy Award for lead actor in a drama series for Moonlighting, a show patterned after Hollywood's breezy romantic comedies of the 1930s. Michael J. Fox was named best actor in a comedy for Family Ties, whose most celebrated segment last season featured Fox's character in a spiritual crisis over the death of a friend...
Young and eager, Bud Fox snares a $50,000-a-year job at a Wall Street investment bank. But he is not satisfied. Fox dreams of scoring the big trades. He gets his chance when he meets the wealthy corporate raider Gordon Gekko. "I'm offering you rich," says Gekko. Enticed, Fox takes off into the stratosphere of high finance, only to crash-land a year later...
...tale from last week? Not quite. Fox is a character in Wall Street, a film directed by Oliver Stone (Platoon) and scheduled for December release that uncannily captures the real Wall Street's current mood. Says Kenneth Lipper, a former partner at Salomon Brothers and the movie's chief consultant: "There is a brooding omnipresence that the prosperity on Wall Street is headed toward a cataclysmic end." Stone, however, downplays the parallels. "You see the shadow of the crash, but Wall Street is the story of an individual...
Cynthia Cohan, 39, a Los Angeles lawyer and mother of two, tolerates her Cherokee's inconveniences in return for the advantages it gives her in negotiating war-torn freeway lanes. Its "macho presence," she says, keeps snippy sports cars from cutting her off. The desert-fox image holds little appeal for Cohan, who uses the vehicle as an updated substitute for the hopelessly unchic Country Squire station wagon. But she admits to her own jeep fantasy: "When the big earthquake comes," she says, "I'm going to drive up and over the rubble...