Word: funning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair game. It was something to be poked fun at--after all the guy was pretty stupid. But what was fair game for political commentators can still pose an incalculable threat to college students...
...biography than his Elvis (1981). Goldman, a pop-culture maven and former professor of English at Columbia University, had no sympathy for Presley or for the gospel, country and rockabilly traditions that fused in his music. Much of Elvis crouches at the level of a self-conscious hipster poking fun at a greaseball bumpkin...
Remember when getting there was half the fun? When driving was a breeze and flying was a cinch? No longer. Gridlock has gripped America, threatening to transform its highways and flyways into snarled barriers to progress. After returning from their summer jaunts, many travelers are looking back in anger at odysseys through potholed streets, jam-packed freeways, bottlenecked bridges and overstuffed airports. Now they face another season of grinding commutes: in many U.S. cities, the rush hour has grown into a hellish crush that lasts virtually from sunup till sundown. For U.S. businesses, the meter is running. Companies are losing...
...less caught up with achievement than their children. The students are the first to notice the double standard: "I worked and they didn't," says Prudence Cumberbatch, 19, a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence, as she compares her freshman experience with that of her parents. "They partied and had fun and I didn't. And they said, 'Please don't do what...
...Fun, no. Whatever hopes a gaffer might have that the likes of Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips (an actor who curiously combines sweetness and menace and may have the brightest future of them all) could reinvigorate the moribund western form are quickly blotted out by the cloud of ineptitude raised by Young Guns. Profit, yes. The fool thing took in more than $19 million in its first two weeks of release...