Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hook...
...complained that $11,000 was pricy for a tuition, but $47,000 for a cable hook-up in the gym of the Business School? Who are they kidding? That amount alone could be a before-tax salary of any number of well-paid jobs or finance desperately needed teaching fellows and tutors in financially poor College departments. More dramatically, it would pay tuition and expenses for two years for a student not on financial...
...will grant that the Business School raises an enormous amount of financial support and donations; but so does the College, and I have yet to see such spending on ridiculous whims like a single television cable hook...
...Homo Eightitatus was an obnoxious, Mammon-worshipping egotist. In Regarding Henry, it took a bullet in the head to turn the 80s lawyer into a compassionate human being. In The Doctor, it took a bout with cancer to cure the 80s doctor of his own chronic self-absorption. In Hook, it took a trip to Never-Never Land to cure the 80s corporate raider of his careerist monomania. In Life Stinks, the 80s millionaire didn't know what he had until he literally lost everything...
...have] come into focus as a misguided era of borrowed luxury." All of these films self-righteously painted the conspicuous consumer of the 80s as a greedy, uncaring bastard. And all of them were boring, hokey pieces of crap that lost millions of dollars for their studios. (Except for Hook, which starred actors with big enough names to turn it into a financially successful, boring, hokey piece of crap...