Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Lampoon's European Vacation and Spies Like Us, were among the dozen top grossers). As Screenwriter Robert Kaufman notes, "The studios know that one week of Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd walking into walls in Spies Like Us will gross as much as Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo during its entire run. And a film like Rambo taps the hidden rage of urban blacks and lower-class whites who feel cheated out of a future. They can't shoot Mommy and Daddy, so they watch Sly shoot up the world." With hits like these, who needs...
...wait. There is a much-maligned high-tech wizard waiting in the wings: the VCR. In 1980, studio revenue from domestic ticket sales and movie videocassettes totaled $1.3 billion (videocasssettes accounted for only 15%). By 1984 the cumulative take was $2.4 billion (33% from cassettes). Last year it rose to $3 billion, and cassette sales were virtually half the total (see chart), despite the "first sale" doctrine, which prohibits studios from earning revenues after cassettes are sold to video outlets. The industry is now pushing hard for a share of rental fees. Nonetheless, in five years, Hollywood has more than...
...herpes. Things haven't progressed that much. We can't be fooled by holiday ceremony speeches into believing that the dream has been actualized. Half of Black families live in poverty. Reagan says his administration has helped Blacks. Under Reagan white unemployment fell, Black unemployment rose. Under Reagan white poverty fell, Black poverty rose. The Reagan recovery has been built on the backs of Black workers in the same way Colonial America was built on the backs of Black slaves. Reagan says his administration has helped Blacks...
...Washington D.C., compared the national figures for the Class of '74 and the Class of '83. Over the nine years the percentage of graduates in public-interest fields dropped from 5.3 to 3.1, those in government dropped from 16.2 to 11.5 and those in private practice, business and industry rose from 61.4 to 71.2 percent, she says...
Mary Paul descends the stairs and picks up on Geraldine's last words. "You have to help people be patient with themselves, as well. Rose, whom you met, is living in an imaginary world right now, in which she tells herself that everything is going to be fine for her and the six children. But ask Anita Cleary, Rose's case worker, and you will discover things such as Rose's total inability to handle money; Anita has confronted Rose on that. Those ballet lessons Rose is so delighted with cost $500. Anita is very careful to do two things...