Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York, justice continues to be uneven. One need simply read the newspapers to see cases where Blacks have not received justice in cases involving whites. A perfect example is the case of Michael Stewart, a Black subway graffiti-artist who died of a beating given by Transit police after he was arrested...
...bright pink party dress, the kind that domestic ex-prom queens like June Cleaver and Donna Reed wore on TV sitcoms in the 1950s and early 1960s. In fact, TV-sitcom theme songs play in the background to drive home the point of Mommy and Daddy's TV-perfect lifestyle...
...soon becomes clear that this is not the perfect family it appears to be. Mommy and Daddy are upset that they have no children, but they are given to occasional moments of cruelty that would render them unfit to be parents anyway. They also have TV-sized attention spans and short memories. Mommy is catty and shrewish. Daddy is timorous and impotent...
...much of a social life -- no one remembers a steady girlfriend -- and he did not join any fraternities because they blackballed people. He became a minor legend in college, setting up a dormitory barbershop to serve Nigerian students whose hair the local barbers refused to cut. It was a perfect Dukakis enterprise: high-minded and lucrative at the same time...
...carnal candy land evoked by the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. The shrewdly calculated saga of a girl's coming of age in 1963, the film Dirty Dancing is responsible more than anything else for this new slew of what might be called pube rock. The movie was so perfect a young teen dream, it became almost poignant. You had to see it to believe it, and many did. Dirty Dancing pulled in $65 million at the box office and is still going strong at the video stores...