Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A newly nominated, newly ebullient President Reagan was also eager to tell his story, in this case to Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey. Sidey has had more than 200 interviews with seven incumbents, starting with Dwight Eisenhower in 1957. "Talking to a President should always be memorable and interesting," says...
Adapting the 1977 French movie Pardon Man Affaire to his own rubber-faced disciplines, Writer-Director Wilder has fashioned an ironic, worldly, yet sternly moral comedy that gives an energizing twist to every farcical convention and finds the perfect timing for every rubber-faced reaction to calamity. Judith Ivey as...
But the romantic, down and dirty Dallas that television keeps alive has long since gone. "It's such a straight town," says Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins. "It is so earnest about making itself a great city. When people spot funkiness in Dallas, they race around with a...
The merchandise in Sears aisles and in the catalogs constitutes a breathtaking array of how Americans are spending their money in the waning years of the 20th century. In a mixture of utility and Middle American chic, there are gas barbecues and girdles, personal computers and auto-ignition analyzers, draperies...
Burton was not the greatest actor of his generation, although many of his peers were convinced that he could have been. Nor was he the greatest success at the box office, although 20 years ago he was almost certainly the highest-paid actor in the world. But for the better...