Word: lean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MILITARY, like the lead in the movie "Stripes," is now perceived to be a "lean, mean fighting machine." Enlistment is up, America has forgotten Vietnam and analysts claim the military's prestige has been restored...
...leading men," Murphy declares. "White guys won't accept their ladies' going nuts over a black actor." Notes Playwright Fuller: "Americans trust black people when we sing, dance or tell jokes. It's when we stop laughing that people get itchy." So starring roles for blacks lean toward the comic and away from the romantic, which spells hard times for serious actors and serious films. Says Jewison: "There has to be room for films that don't have Richard Pryor in a chicken suit...
...willing wenches, dramatic confrontations and Bailey's gift for subversive gab: "Nietzsche generalized that all good things approach their goals crookedly, and so for very crooked reasons I'll put his idea to the test." But page by page, scene by scene, Kennedy's prose is lean, energetic and grounded in the detail and humanity that keep Bailey from becoming that fatal cliche, larger than life...
...Juan and the future Nobel prizewinner was a visiting teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. The island was also where Kennedy met Dana Sosa, a gifted dancer-singer who forsook the stage to raise three children and help her husband buy time to write during the lean years...
...going to see somebody you know. It's exactly like going back to school for the first day." On the set of Passage he faced an additional hurdle, his daunting regard for the director: "The first two days in Bangalore I didn't want to talk to Lean. I was in such awe I wanted to fade into the background...