Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is at least one worry a gay actor would probably not have had. Why? Because gay actors seldom take the risk of accepting gay parts. Like Rock Hudson, they often find it safer to play ladies...
...federal judge after discrimination charges by minority candidates. The court has scolded the department for testing in a way that "had a substantial adverse impact on blacks, Hispanics and women." In New York minority candidates who failed in 1983 brought suit, and 200 won higher rank. Little Rock and San Francisco have faced similar challenges...
...explosion of fare specially made for the home-video market. The explosion has arrived, in quantity if not in quality. No one knows how many nonmovie tapes have been released, but estimates hover between 7,000 and 10,000. A few genres -- notably exercise tapes, children's cassettes and rock-concert videos -- have established a niche in the market. But the rest are fighting for a relatively tiny number of viewers. Usually produced on a shoestring, these made-for-home-video cassettes are doing well if they sell 20,000 or 30,000 copies (at prices ranging from...
...always does in a comedy of mores. When Howard suffers a heart attack, Paulie sets aside her resolve -- until she uncovers his passing liaison with a would-be Mme. de Pompadour of the shopping malls. That propels her into New York City, where Son Jason, a punk-rock musician who lives in a Bronx tenement, and his pregnant girlfriend Flame, nee Sara, add to the imbroglio. But, after all manner of marital peccadilloes, Wolitzer (In the Palomar Arms) spins her fifth novel into a bittersweet tribute as the Flaxes finally celebrate their anniversary. "We waltzed around the perimeters...
...other recent Western visitors to Moscow have noticed, Mikhail Gorbachev has achieved something that only three years ago would have seemed impossible. He has made the Soviet Union appear almost normal, a place with problems and foibles much like any other nation, a country that has ethnic protests, rock concerts, train wrecks, church services, strikes, scandals and beauty contests, not to mention pizza, pollution, late-night television talk shows and a First Lady. After the congenial Reagan-Gorbachev summit, the country paused for the millennium celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Unthinkable under the old order...