Word: rad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agenda" is one of those terms that in U.S. politics tend to mean "new advertisements." But the Radcliffe Quarterly seems like it's supplying a "new look" with substance, putting the "rad" back in Radcliffe. Things are looking...
...they'd see themselves there too: warm and puddly on The Wonder Years, starched and smarmy on Family Ties. Like The Wonder Years, Running on Empty is haunted by wraiths of the '60s. Like Family Ties' Alex Keaton, Danny is a decent kid with dreams that trouble his ex-rad mom and dad: Alex plans to be a yuppie Ivan Boesky; Danny wants to study piano at Juilliard. And like both these shows, the movie tiptoes away from political specifics to nestle in the capacious bosom of no-issue humanism...
...that with such big bucks at stake, skateboarding remains a pretty straight-ahead endeavor. It has its own magazines (Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding are the most successful), its own lingo, its own half-mystical lore and its own concepts of < cool. No thrasher excessively applauds another for an especially rad move. Miss a trick, and another skater will say, with offhand censure, "That was totally lame." But get it right, and the same comment or a close variation ("You're such a dweeb for making that") will be offered, but delivered this time with an admiring irony. "Basically...
...company took over, some rides were growing corny with age, especially in the Tomorrowland section of the parks, as real- life events were surpassing Disney's futurism. Says Eisner: "The park has to be extremely contemporary. If it's not, the kids won't think it's a rad place to be. If it's not innovative, then intelligent people will be bored or go somewhere else...
...yourself in on the fun? Well, freestyle-ready bikes like the Rad Dogs' will set you back $500 to $750 apiece. You can take lessons from a pro for $100 a day and try to make the grade in a club. And then, once your arm is out of the cast, you will never forget freestyling. It is just like riding a bicycle...