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...have those people who are very interested in nutrition and health, and you have those who are going to eat junk food," Moores says...
...will invite the poor girl to the senior prom. Though it is at pains to present high school as a class society in which the rich (in their preppy Miami Vice linens) already know how to use the tyranny of style to ostracize poor Andie and Duckie (in their junk-punk-funk handmades), at base the picture is Love Finds Andie Walsh. And when Stanton must play a Judge Hardy on the skids, the psychodrama can get awfully wet. But within this familiar format, Hughes creates edge, surprise and romance. Blane and Andie's first chat, conducted on their school...
There is certainly more to Simon's adolescence than this risky business. She studies literature at Hunter College, sells lipsticks at Woolworth, pastes fake diamonds into junk jewelry, and sits as a designer's model. But in posing for her own self-portrait, Simon has found a true vocation. Together, Bronx Primitive and A Wider World qualify as a minor American classic...
Some Hill leaders would like to junk the creaky and ponderous budget process and instead try to hammer out a grand compromise at a "summit" meeting between Hill leaders of both parties and the Administration. So far, however, Reagan has shown no willingness to come to the bargaining table. He seems to believe that if he stands fast, the Hill will eventually blink and adopt his budget. He figures that Congressmen will not want to go to the voters in November to explain why they raised taxes and jeopardized national security...
Light's arrest for heroin trafficking occurred, he maintains, while he was delivering two grams of "junk" for a friend. At his 1984 trial, New York City prosecutors had contended that the dope was part of a much larger quantity that Light was dealing. Federal authorities declined to say what kind of deal Light may have cut with the Government in return for his story. When Deputy Commission Counsel Stephen Ryan asked Light, "Would (the Mafia) kill you for what you're doing today?" He replied soberly: "Without a doubt...