Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plague of tits-and-zits teen pix, which treat adolescence as one endless gonadal giggle, his movies (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) are pretty acutely attuned to the exposed nerve ends of ordinary kids. Nice kids like Andie, a middle-class high school senior who plays nurse to her sad-sack dad (Harry Dean Stanton), puts up with the suffocating devotion of a funny dork named Duckie (Jon Cryer) and moons over Blane, a wealthy classmate (Andrew McCarthy) who maybe loves her back...
...Omaha last week, parents, students and community leaders struggled to come to their own understanding of the sad epidemic. Barbara Wheeler, a store manager who works with the city's "personal crisis" hot line, thought that the Midwest's economic plight places a great burden on status-conscious teens. "Peer pressure about images is worse than ever," she said. Bryan students talked about heavy pressure for good grades and social success. Said Chris Longacre, 17: "You feel like if you make one mistake, your future is gone." Bryan's principal, John McQuinn, pointed to prosuicide rock lyrics, complaining that...
...total debt U.S. agricultural debt has piled up to $214 billion, more than the combined foreign debt of Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, she says, arguing that "It is sad that we can let these countries off the hook" while the government sends foreclosure notices to American farms. Kelley, who proposes a three-year moratorium on farm foreclosures, says that next month the government will send out 65,000 foreclosure notices...
Former business manager Joan H. M. Hsiao '86 says "We're predominantly wealthy Jews from New York and we hurt in terms of not having a very diverse group. It's really a sad factor...
...that Marlene's parents, now in their 70s, dread the possible reopening of the case. They still reside in Hanford, though the house they lived in at the time of their daughter's death has long since been torn down. The memories have been harder to demolish. "The sad thing is that it keeps coming back," says Marlene's brother Walter Jr. "We have not been allowed the time to heal." And the end is still not in sight...