Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he was raised in New Jersey, Carl Lewis' inner thermostat always registers cool. Lewis loves to run and jump when it is hot. The hotter it is, the better he feels. On this humid Tuesday afternoon, as Lewis prepares for his final workout, the stands at the Santa Monica track are empty save for the security guards who only have eyes for stray spectators trying to pass through the chain-link fence. A female hurdler sprints along one side of the track. Lewis, his coach Tom Tellez, and Carl's friend Kirk Baptiste, a University of Houston...
...little Oriental mysticism. (Buckaroo's slogan, "No matter where you go, there you are," could serve as a fortune-cookie credo for the no-problem '80s.) There is also a passel of sharp performances. The presence of such actors as Christopher Lloyd (Zenned-out on an inner voice that must sound like Daffy Duck's), Ellen Barkin (with her bruised features and street-angel smile) and Jeff Goldblum (heartthrob of the Mensa sorority) clues Buckaroo Banzai as very chic scifi. Lithgow, the movies' Mr. Versatile (transsexual jock in The World According to Garp, bumbling lover...
...legislation that form the domestic core of his own re-election platform. The half-dozen purportedly trapped bills include a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, a measure allowing spouses working as homemakers to open tax-free individual retirement accounts, tax incentives for the construction of factories in inner-city "enterprise zones," and tuition tax credits for low-and middle-income parents of private-school students. There was also the so-called equal-access bill, which was passed by the Senate in June. It would permit religious groups to meet in public high schools before and after classes. Reagan...
Children can deal with that (although they probably like the dark things which lurk in the swamp better), but what can they be expected to make of things like the second gate to the South Sage? The South Sage gate is a mirror which reflects a person's inner self. Although not a physical barrier, it is an effective deterrent because "most men, when confronted with their true inner nature, run away screaming." True, perhaps, but very much over the heads of eight-year-olds and too simplistic for their parents. At such times the movie's audience and message...
Your little brother or sister couldn't care less about understanding his or her true inner self, so he will love The Neverending Story. But anyone over the age of 12 will have trouble forgetting that it is, after all, only a story...