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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elvis Aaron Presley, a drape-suited, tight-trousered young man of 21, and the sight and sound of him drive teen-age girls wild. All through the South and West, Elvis is packing theaters, fighting off shrieking admirers, disturbing parents, puckering the brows of psychologists, and filling letters-to-the-editor columns with cries of alarm and, from adolescents, counter-cries of adulation...
...clinging to a steep mountainside. But today it is, as Mayor George Dib Nehme puts it, "like a very small jail with far too many people." He continues: "We have no assurances of food, water or medicine. We are living day by day, and there is no end in sight. Fourteen people have been killed so far in the shelling. There is sniping, but we don't shoot back. We can't. We are hostages...
Beyond that, The Right Stuff, even before its official premiere on Oct. 21, is surrounded by a great, speculative buzzing. This is caused by the fact that one of its principal figures, onetime Astronaut Glenn, is currently running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sight unseen, Washington politicians, pundits and gossipists are wondering what effect a potentially popular movie may have on his candidacy (see following story). But politics aside, the movie's portrayal of Glenn aptly illustrates Kaufman's strategy in adapting Wolfe's book. In one of the author's best sentences, Glenn is described...
...Acropolis, dwarfing the monuments. Its first task: setting straight a carved column at the temple's southeast corner, which has tilted precariously since a 1981 earthquake moved its base by more than one inch. When the crane is idle, its upper portions will fold down, out of sight of the residents and visitors in the city below...
...Companies should be able to hold the line on prices because wage demands have slowed while worker productivity has begun to increase after stagnating during the recession. Another reason for optimism about inflation is the stability of oil prices. Said Heller: "There is no third oil shock anywhere in sight." James McKie, an economics professor at the University of Texas, agreed but added a caveat: "There was no second oil shock in sight before 1978 and no first oil shock in sight prior to 1973. The history of energy prices is a history of surprises...