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...million so far, Good Morning, Vietnam ($110 million) and Shoot to Kill ($30 million). On TV, Disney has a hit sitcom, The Golden Girls; two popular new cartoon shows, The Adventures of the Gummi Bears and DuckTales; the third-ranked game show, Win, Lose or Draw; and a reborn flagship program, The Disney Sunday Movie. At the three thriving Disney theme parks -- in California, Florida and Japan -- total attendance ballooned past 50 million during 1987, up 22% from...
...just America, living in peace, open to all Americans--"Black men and White men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics"--would ever become reality. King's poor people's campaign seemed to die with that bullet blast in Memphis. But in 1988, that poor people's campaign has been reborn. A vote for Jesse Jackson is a vote for a dream...
...huge tribe of the young revolted against the nation's elders and authority, and when the nation finished killing its heroes. The old Then meant an American exceptionalism, the divine dispensation that the nation thought it enjoyed in the world. In 1968 the American exceptionalism perished, but it was reborn in a generational exceptionalism -- the divine dispensation thought to be granted to the children of the great baby boom. The young were special, even sacred, in the way that America once was special and sacred. American innocence and virtue found new forms, new skins...
...many other neglected, down-and-dirty streets around the country, is shuddering back to life, becoming a gleaming circa-1920s boulevard. Many of its handsomely scaled old masonry buildings were renovated: derelict art moderne office buildings became cool art moderne apartment buildings, and the art deco stock exchange was reborn as an art deco disco. There were more than two dozen major restorations in all -- including what had been the CRA's office building. The CRA, as it happened, had helped foster this revival. So in 1980 back came the urban-planning bureaucrats to their original building, back this time...
Come again? World War II Army generals would flip in their graves if they could see what has become of the trusty little truck commissioned for $740 apiece in 1941. Who could have foreseen that the military's drab workhorse, the general purpose vehicle -- jeep, for short -- would be reborn 40 years later in electric colors as Cherokees, Broncos, Renegades, Blazers and Samurais and used to cart fashion victims and C.P.A.s up the ramps of suburban parking structures...