Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turquoise that sparkles even in drinks made with blue curacao -- concoctions that may look suspiciously like Windex to the uninitiated. Frozen in slush machines, the rainbow drinks of tropical fruits and assorted rums, vodkas and liqueurs sport such names as Bora Bora, Goombay Smash and Creamsickle, and have instant appeal to the Kool-Aid generation...
...major role, giving comedians national exposure and drawing on them for starring roles in sitcoms and Saturday Night Live. The intimacy between comic and audience, moreover, may be especially appealing in an age of high-tech movies and supersize rock concerts. Or it may simply be that the instant gratification of one-liners is perfectly suited to the short attention span of the TV-educated '80s audience. "If you go to a comedy play, a certain amount of time is lost setting up the plot or characters," notes Bert Haas, general manager of Zanies, a Chicago-based comedy-club chain...
Even before Instant Celebrities Donna Rice and Oliver North faded from the nation's television screens, network executives were already thinking about bringing them back. After all, it had been clear from the start that their stories are the stuff TV movies are made...
...cash in on Olliemania with a two-hour movie to be based on an instant biography being churned out by Boston Globe Reporter Ben Bradlee Jr. The deal is only in the exploratory stage, but Hollywood gossip mills already tab Treat Williams as a natural for the part of the hound-dog-eyed Marine. Some would-be casting agents, however, favor Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford. And who better to portray the portly former National Security Adviser John Poindexter than Edward Asner? On the basis of hairstyle alone, Farrah Fawcett is a shoo-in for the part of Ollie...
...proof that writers are wise to resist them is that the two best current entries in any category are one-offs. Both are from British writers better noted for their series featuring pairs of mismatched policemen. Reginald Hill, whose stories of the cops Dalziel and Pascoe verge on instant classics, writes Death of a Dormouse (Mysterious Press; 281 pages; $15.95) under the pseudonym Patrick Ruell. He discerningly depicts the slow emergence from submission to self-respect of a woman who discovers after her husband's death how little she has known of his real life. Ruth Rendell, roughly half...