Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sons of bitches," were the exact eloquent words he pronounced at the end of a picture-taking session on Friday. It's nice to know that the top dog in the White House is as human as the rest of us foul-mouthed Amercans. But the Gipper certainly doesn't think...
Here's where John Hughes comes in. Alone in the plague of tits-and-zits teen pix, which treat adolescence as one endless gonadal giggle, his movies (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) are pretty acutely attuned to the exposed nerve ends of ordinary kids. Nice kids like Andie, a middle-class high school senior who plays nurse to her sad-sack dad (Harry Dean Stanton), puts up with the suffocating devotion of a funny dork named Duckie (Jon Cryer) and moons over Blane, a wealthy classmate (Andrew McCarthy) who maybe loves her back...
First-Timer Howard Deutch is a nice surprise too. His precise, unexploitative direction is sympathetic to the awkward pauses in teen talk, to the mopery of first love, to the suicidal bravado of words spoken in heat. Like Hughes, he is eager to let his fine young actors strut their stuff: McCarthy, his tight, knowing smile intoxicating every female in sight (and doesn't he know it); Cryer, prancing, caroming, jiving nonstop, exploding into a sublime lip synch of Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness; Ringwald, the henna-haired emotional anchor. With their help, any attentive moviegoer can walk...
...brother of a local mob boss. Under the capo's tutelage, Hill slowly learned how to run crap games, pass off counterfeit money, torch buildings for a fee and, finally, how to take over businesses and squeeze them dry. Along the crooked way, he married a nice middle-class girl from Long Island, who realized rather late that her husband was not just another up-and- coming businessman...
Without a doubt, the first 350 years weren't exactly the smoothest between Harvard and Cambridge. Wouldn't it be nice if Harvard decided to change its longstanding and well-known indifference toward the surrounding community with a little 350th beneficence...