Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After receiving a dismal thrashing from Brown, 34-11, in the first part of a triangular meet Saturday in Providence, the grapplers delivered a victory, custom designed by Hollywood, defeating Central Connecticut College...
...begins to manifest the mania he condemns, in looking-glass fashion. The "civil religion" of unbridled capitalism makes everything awful to him. Among his complaints: the plethora of soaps and deodorizing products available to U.S. consumers, the lamentable historical and geographic illiteracy of most Americans, and the fact that Hollywood actresses feel the need to dress down or otherwise disguise themselves before venturing out alone in public...
...World War II. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied into maturity at the cost of his old principles; in John Boorman's Hope and Glory, a boy finds German fire bombs virtually on his front porch. Neither child would fit comfortably into a Hollywood idyll, past or present, where kids are expected to have reality-resistant minds and hang out forever at the soda fountain of youth...
...name it: Pampers panic? Tot terror? Baby gloom? But whatever you call it, mark this astonishing fact: for once Hollywood has arrived first on the case, identifying what is obviously a vast and troubling social malaise before Donahue has talked it to death or Congress even thought of throwing money...
...cocaine," says Hanne Lille-Schulstad, a Lawrence, Kans., drug-abuse specialist. Others simply hope for the best: that drunken teens will have the sense to call home for a ride or allow a sober friend to take the car keys away before they get behind the wheel. Says one Hollywood Hills, Calif., mother of a 15-year-old son: "They don't want to be seen as punitive, so they walk the line of being understanding...