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...attention at highway speeds. Usually, as Langdon says, it was a case of "form faking function." Cosmetic A-frames were slapped onto plain boxes; McDonald's golden arches never supported anything. The "modernism" of the fast-food stands was superficial set design, not unlike today's putatively "postmodern" shopping- mall facades...
...charmed by the teen flicks that every Cinema Half-a-Dozen seems to have five of? Think that children, including child actors, should be flash-frozen at twelve and thawed out again at 20? Well, help is on the way. Time's winged chariot is rumbling through the shopping mall. Maturity lurks; in a couple of years not one of the kids in The Breakfast Club will be young enough to impersonate a high schooler. Creeping adulthood may require more time to overtake the young male teen-flick actors who, with an exception or two, now look...
After the day's fourth cup of coffee and eleventh cigarette, Molly's off to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, the Mecca of Valley Girls. If Andy Hardy's life was small town, Molly and her generation's is mall town: cruising the stores and the guys for a little post-innocent fun. Today's purchase is a portable tape player, a present for Mom. We detour to glom some sweaters, to pet the hamsters in the pet shop, to try on some beige Shiseido lipstick. Molly resists (and transcends) the Valley Girl stereotype, though she lives and speaks a variation...
...will wonder why Connie Wyatt (Laura Dern) is worthy of being the film's primary focus. She spends most of her time painting her toes, talking seductively to the bathroom mirror, and dressing up in skimpy clothes and excessive make-up to go manhunting at the local shopping mall. Connie is like any other teenage girl in heat, only she seems much more vapid and much less interesting. When Connie argues with her mother (Mary Kay Place) and refuses to help with the dishes or paint the house, she is nothing less than despicable. Connie is a suburban rebel without...
...cold, they turn leathery. Cinnamon Sam's rolls remain soft an hour or two longer without reheating, although they have no more flavor than others tried in Kansas City. Nevertheless, the buns have a huge following. "Cinnamon rolls are ageless," observes Rich Favaro, founder of Cinnabon in the SeaTac Mall in Federal Way, Wash. "Their appeal crosses all demographics...