Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wants to play everything "from a nun to a safari adventurer to a peasant girl to Lady Macbeth." She can't, however, imagine herself trying something as difficult as Meryl Streep's tour de force in Sophie's Choice. "I don't think I could play a sex-starved rock singer," she speculates, pausing to see how that possibility strikes her listener. Then, grinning, she changes her mind: "But maybe I could." She is on view in two fairly routine films released this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson's girlfriend, and Short Circuit...
...suburban high school senior whose parents had gone off on vacation. The script managed to satirize kids, adults, greed, sex, Porsches and the Princeton admissions process in less than two hours, and De Mornay was easily best-of-show. Thousands cheered. De Mornay went on to play a rock singer opposite Michael O'Keefe's baseball player in The Slugger's Wife, a problem film written by Neil Simon that somehow failed to be funny about women's careers and self-realization. Then, shrewdly, she dropped down to a supporting role in The Trip to Bountiful, a film in which...
...plastic placentas of cassette containers. The bikers and pink-haired punkettes hanging out in front of Tower Records recognize Molly even before she parks, but the mode is cool: a slow nod, a thin smile and distance. In one corner of the store, David Lee Roth, the motor-mouthing rock star, signs autographs, but Molly is too shy to approach him. Instead, she gets down to business, striking surgically at every rack in the store: rock, pop, jazz, country, blues...
...keep a small rock my boyfriend gave me!" Miss Somewhere Else said...
...hope that this letter will rock the foundations of complacency in the shantytown and cause members of the Open University to contemplate their past actions and future plans. I am quite sure that this letter will further isolate me from the Open University members. I regret this fact, and I applaud those members of the Open University who have also noted the abuses I have discussed. It is nothing more than the discharge of responsibility which prompts me to confront the very organization of which I am a member, in which a number of my associations are, and also...