Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craziness only starts there. Out of work and out of luck, Otto--who is played by Emilio Estevez, a dead ringer for his father. Martin Sheen--joins up with the repo men, getting a harsh initiation into the world of jimmying locks, seizing parked cars, and avoiding gunfire from disgruntled debtors. He thought he was tough, but here he meets some people who are really out on the fritz. Here's Bud (played by Harry Dean Stanton), a frazzled repovet who first brings Otto into the business--getting him to help him with a difficult heist--and then befriends...
...eccentricities" and "insecurities" must be kept well hidden, like those "dingy apartments" which the graduate student is often forced to live in After all, student kind cannot bear very much reality. Let us avoid, too, any use of first names, any "cultivated casualness" which might muddy the sheen of professionalism and authority which we should exude like high quality machine oil. And God help us all if any of we young professionals ever "take personal offense...
...Dino De Laurentüs production, it stars George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, and Drew Barrymore as an eight-year-old girl who can rouse flames by focusing her mind. "I thought it would be neat to see all these fires and effects," says E.T.'s little buddy, who picked up the book at home one day and told her mother she wanted to play the lead. "I set a lot of people on fire, but they deserve...
...corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature stories on informal entertaining and other trends, Wright was hailed as an innovator. He was catapulted to the top of the new profession of industrial design along with Norman Bel Geddes, Walter Dorwin Teague, Donald Deskey, Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss...
...strides through Metropolis with a heavy, sexy gait, as if John Wayne had just discovered his libido. A three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia looks tarnished: the S coils like a sinister serpent. From every corner of the Big Apricot, citizens avert their eyes, hardly daring to whisper: Can this be ... Superman...