Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want their five- year-olds on a couch two decades from now telling a psychiatrist, "It was those R-rated thrillers my daddy green-lighted that warped my life." It may be that a few moguls are hitting their midlife-crisis stride. They're tired of making vicious junk that passes for adventure. They'll feel better if they make innocuous junk that passes for humanism...
...such brazen baring of feelings is unhip, Isaak doesn't care. "Sophistication is the subtle art of trading away all your gems for a bunch of junk," he says. During the '70s, while his peers were turning on and dropping out, Isaak -- who neither smokes nor drinks -- was in Japan as a college exchange student grooving to Presley's Sun sessions and trying to break into the movie business. His first credit: a walk-on part in a Japanese World War II film in which he played a lubricious American...
Helen (Sun) and Elsa (Poreba) have known each other for fifteen years, since Elsa was a teenager. Helen is an artist who creates animals and fantastical creatures from scraps and junk in her front yard, which have earned her the distrust and animosity of her neighbors, in addition to the love and respect of a few good friends like Elsa and the toleration of her minister, Marius Byleveld (Artie Wu). Now a schoolteacher in Capetown, Elsa has driven for ten hours in response to a desperate letter from Helen, who is trying to stop the church council from putting...
...what allows the rumors to grow is that they arrive in a vacuum. She is relatively closed next to her husband's wide-eyed openness. The public has an encyclopedic knowledge of the President's habits, from his favorite teams to how long he jogs, his weakness for junk food and the eggs with jalapeno peppers he fixes for Hillary. He will answer the most personal questions if they are put directly to him. When the story gets around that a steward inadvertently walked into the presidential bedroom while the Clintons were still asleep, Clinton said it was true...
...Vegas. He came to Las Vegas at a time when banks like Thomas' relied for some of their deposits on the Mob-controlled Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. But Wynn was also one of the first Las Vegas entrepreneurs to turn to Milken's junk bonds when it came time to build Atlantic City's Golden Nugget. He still refers to a casino as "the joint." But he was also the first in the business to decide to turn up the lights on the casino floor, and the only one ever to write a ballet about the history...