Word: neatness
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...with '90s attitude splattered all over, like the rotten eggs that used to decorate Dad's DeSoto on mischief night. The series, called Rebel Highway, is premiering a movie a week each Friday through Sept. 16. Taken together, this seamy decalogue shows the '50s as a neat place to visit -- a lovers' lane accessible from a killer drag strip -- but hell to live through. Each movie revives the battles between tough guys and sweet chicks; each recalls hot sex before the pill and those enduring teen compulsions: to rebel and to belong...
...neat trick about Forrest is he can symbolize so many people. New York Times columnist Frank Rich has compared him to Bill Clinton. But Forrest's simple optimism and his success as an entrepreneur and a reviver of American confidence could make him an emblem of '80s conservatism: not only Reaganomics but what Republicans might call Reaganethics. He's E.T. with a little Gandhi thrown in. He's Candide making the best of the worst of all possible worlds. And in his influence on events, from the capture of the Watergate burglars to John Lennon's composition of the song...
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...even about fat tires meeting bumpy terrain. They are about the possibility of it. "They suggest you could drive off-road if you wanted to, even if you never do," says Christopher Cedergren, senior vice president of AutoPacific, an automotive consulting firm. In other words, they perform the neat psychological function of persuading baby boomers that reaching middle age has not turned them into grownups. "They don't carry the same label of suburban domesticity as our vans do," says Chrysler vice president Bernard Robertson, general manager of the company's light truck and Jeep division. "We get letters...
Duncan, for one, says the core has taught him "a lot of neat little facts." But it does not provide an understanding of the methodologies of various disciplines, he says...