Word: skipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wholesale price per kilo has plummeted 50%, from $60,000 in 1981 to $30,000 now. "They've got to move the inventory," says Sergeant Skip Pearson of the Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau. "It's like an end-of-the-year sale." Explains Bureau Commander Arthur Nehrbass: "Right now, it's a buyer's market. We've been offered coke at $28,000 per kilo on credit, with two weeks...
...collaborations with George, and with a host of other composers including Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Kurt Weill and Vernon Duke, Ira could write lyrics that appeared clumsy or cliched; he could skip or cram syllables into a melodic line. But no lyricist used slang phrases earlier or as cleverly; none devised catchier titles; nobody got to the dramatic point faster than Ira. One reason so many Gershwin songs are so memorable is that Ira punched through the theme in the first few words ("They're writing songs of love,/ But not for me"). And in at least one song...
...Class, two trains to Harvard Square meet in the way station of Vernon Academy, an Illinois boys' prep school. The express arrives in the form of Square "Skip" Ellsworth Burroughs IV (Rob Lowe), an academy lifer who, well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local chugs in and Skip finds himself rooming with Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy), a bright it somewhat unworldly scholarship student First day out, the preppie picks on the nerd and Class seems to be shaping up into a celluloid bildungstoman...
...standard Hollywood fate What sets this movie apart, strangely enough, is plausibility Strangely, because at first glance credibility is the last thing you'd expect from a movie that boasts an across-the-tracks camaraderie, ubiquitous prep school antics, and an inadvertent love affair between Jonathan and his roommate Skip's mother, played by Jacqueline Bisset...
...very much divorced from the romance--a division that works to enhance both elements of the film. The tension between his boyish high school existence and his mature sexual involvement focuses Jonathan to reconcile his two halves; eventually he becomes both more adult among friends and more lighthearted with Skip's mother, Ellen. But because Carlino does not indulge in psychology sleight of hand, making Jonathan's emotional maturation too rapid-fire, he never presents the relationship between the boy and his best friend's mother as more than it could credibly be. Once Jonathan discovers Ellen is in fact...