Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horny dork gets to drive the prom queen to distraction. The Breakfast Club, the new film from the writer-director of Sixteen Candles, John Hughes, is an even odder beguilement. A nine-hour Saturday detention class is called for five balky students: a jock (Emilio Estevez), a grind (Anthony Michael Hall), a punk (Judd Nelson), a deb (Molly Ringwald) and a feral cutie (Ally Sheedy) who eats Cap'n Crunch sandwiches and comports herself like a baby Maoist from May '68. They sit around and rank one another. They strike out, then strike bargains, then strike sparks of affection...
...Administration can also look forward to an uphill grind in removing itself from the passenger-railroad business. The fiscal 1986 budget that President Reagan sent to Congress last week proposes to cut all Government subsidies for Amtrak. The move would save $717 million next year and, according to Dole, about $8 billion over the next decade. It would also probably bring an end to passenger trains on such long-haul routes as Chicago- San Francisco and New York-Savannah...
...high schoolers said they appreciated the change from their regular grind...
...private she may be astute Nancy Reagan, refining tactics and wheedling the President's men, but outside she is obliged always to play the First Lady, a serene and smiling public presence. The role may be a grand one, but it can get to be a grind. "Well, it is a job," she says, "which I didn't realize...
...Egyptian inquiry], and we remain calm." One French official, referring to the arrest of the Libyan assassination team, down-played the Egyptian sting. Said he: "Don't you think that Mubarak is using the affair for his own ends? He has a special ax of his own to grind with Libya...