Word: romps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HITCHCOCK meets the Looney Tunes in Throw Momma From the Train, actor Danny DeVito's feature film directing debut. Momma is a bizarre, funny, offbeat romp from beginning to end, an irreverent farce inspired by the best and worst from pop culture...
...sold 300,000 copies; it was hailed as the modern Catcher in the Rye, has been filmed with Michael J. Fox and Phoebe Cates, and is a bit of instant folklore in the book industry. Published as a paperback original by Random House's Vintage Contemporaries series, McInerney's romp gave readers a fast look at a young man's entry-level Manhattan. Bright Lights also put a glamorous shine on Vintage's soft-cover format and helped similar ventures at Scribner's (Signature), Penguin (Contemporary American Fiction) and Bantam (New Fiction). Artfully designed and inexpensive, these books have partially...
...settings are recognizable too (weddings, dances, late-night bars and lonely roads), but Springsteen tilts them so that familiar territory can suddenly seem like a forbidding landscape. Love hurts, love haunts, love heals in these songs. The title cut suggests an amusement-park romp but ends with the kind of lyric reflection that is perfectly plainspoken and impossible to shake: "The house is haunted and the ride gets rough/ And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above/ If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love." Raymond Carver, take...
Moscow's reluctance to let Rust off with a wrist slapping, and thus deflect attention from its embarrassment, only underscored the extreme seriousness with which the Soviets viewed Rust's romp through more than 400 miles of well- guarded airspace. Soviet and Western military experts were still digesting the news of the abrupt departure of Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov, the first official of that rank to be ousted since Nikita Khrushchev's celebrated firing of Georgi Zhukov for meddling in party affairs in 1957. Marshal of Aviation Alexander Koldunov was also dismissed. Further casualties were expected in the course...
Presidential aspirants are unprotected. And sometimes suspected. It is probably fair to say that John Kennedy's legendary White House athletics (including a rumored romp on the Lincoln bed with a National Security Council staffer) had a kind of wicked appeal, and a lot of young politicians took up his hairstyle, stage mannerisms, the projection of thinly veiled lust. And maybe more...