Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Clark Gable removed his shirt in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night to reveal his bare chest, sales of men's undershirts plummeted. This summer's popular baseball film, Bull Durham, has had the opposite effect on the undergarment business. After seeing Susan Sarandon show off black-lace garters in the film, many female movie-goers -- as well as some men shopping for their sweethearts -- rushed out to look for similar items. "There's no question Bull Durham has brought new recognition to the garter belt," says Margery Rubin Cohen, spokeswoman for the Columbus-based Victoria's Secret...
Failure rescued Tucker from that dismal fate. He has passed into popular history as a more interesting figure, at once heroic and cautionary: the little guy who dared to buck the big guys and got squished in the process. It is easy to see why he appealed to Coppola, who has been trying to put Tucker's story on the screen for something like a decade. It is not just simply that as a child Coppola was knocked out by a glimpse of the Tucker Torpedo at an auto show in the late '40s. It is rather that...
...picture derives much of its energy from the surrealistic yet unpretentious play of these styles. But not all of it. The script is rich in ambiguous allusions to the sustaining myths of old-fashioned popular fiction and the folklore of capitalism. It neither blandly accepts them nor blithely satirizes them. Bridges' portrayal of Tucker is in the same key. In the largest sense, he is fully, honestly committed to his dream. But there are lovely little moments when we feel his love of hype and con for their own sake, and sense that whatever the outcome of his enterprise...
...stand on the issues, Sheehy warns us. After all, she argues, the issues have become increasingly diffuse, "too complicated to submit to clever political slogans." The parties have become virtually interchangeable. The candidates themselves are often big on rhetoric but thin on specifics, preferring instead to stake out popular, non-controversial positions (opposing new taxes and "big government" while supporting patriotism, "good jobs at good wages", and a "war on drugs...
Oprah Winfrey overcame childhood abuse, teenage rebellion and TV imagemakers to become host of the tube' s most popular daytime talk show...