Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's right, folks: Pretty in Pink really is about whether the rich boy will invite the poor girl to the senior prom. Though it is at pains to present high school as a class society in which the rich (in their preppy Miami Vice linens) already know how to use the tyranny of style to ostracize poor Andie and Duckie (in their junk-punk-funk handmades), at base the picture is Love Finds Andie Walsh. And when Stanton must play a Judge Hardy on the skids, the psychodrama can get awfully wet. But within this familiar format, Hughes creates...
...perhaps, the short-lived love interest should have done the job. Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a small-town girl who would rather be in California. She saves Halsey from a premature demise, only to be left in a difficult "bind" by him later in the film. With the additional suffering incurred by a woefully underdeveloped romantic relationship, Nash would be acquited of murder by a jury of her audience in the name of good taste. Leigh may be soon upstaging Jamie Lee Curtis as a queen of B-rate cinema, at least in terms of frequency of appearence therein...
...gathered at a "black-tie optional and hackerwear essential" party at Boston's Computer Museum to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the first all-electronic digital computer. On that day in 1946, ENIAC in 20 seconds performed a mathematical calculation that would otherwise have required 40 girl hours to complete. Newspapers headlined the performance. It "solves the unsolvable," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed, many experts mark ENIAC's feat as the beginning of the modern computer...
...young, she is single, and she moved to Manhattan to find success, love and happiness in the big city. You might say she is a cosmopolitan girl, but as it turns out, she is actually the Gentlemen's Quarterly type. This month the GQ editors named Maria Cuomo, 23, one of the 20 most eligible and "unalterably ideal ladies" on either coast of the U.S. "It's great fun," says the New York Governor's daughter, who was delighted to be chosen along with the likes of Singer-Actress Michelle Phillips and MTV Video Jockey Nina Blackwood. Cuomo...
...childhood, recounted with striking imagery and emotional precision in Bronx Primitive (1982). It too is a sort of travel book. A four-year-old Kate and her rachitic younger brother are transported thousands of miles from Poland to the U.S. at the end of World War I. The girl discovers the American air to be full of strange odors and foreign languages, especially English. She is part of a typical "Jewish immigrant hegira": first the densely packed tenements of the Lower East Side, later the wide open spaces of the Bronx, where her household is a turnstile of transient relatives...