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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advice for viewers of Earth Girls Are Easy, the movies' first postmodernist musical comedy. This divine diversion is best approached in a fruit-cocktail state of mind. With its amiable aliens getting their pop culture out of a TV set and its hydraulic surf bunnies singing "I can't spell VW but I got a Porsche, / 'Cause I'm a blond," Earth Girls sounds like a quick mix of E.T. and Beach Blanket Bingo. But it's really a revved-up tribute to postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen taste. Gaud...
...only in the lace-valentine heart of a young Walt Disney. And the tactic works best when applying a cartoonist's paintbrush to a world that is fiction, on- and offscreen. Disney-MGM Studios marries movies to theme parks with the astuteness of Hollywood's hottest studio and the spell of a professional dream weaver. Here the men are strong and the women beautiful; the moral choices are in glorious black and white; and the ending is always happy...
...church on Sundays. Book a table for Sunday brunch at Sylvia's, Harlem's friendliest eatery. But first, for God's sake, go to the Abyssinian Baptist Church. The pioneer architect Charles W. Bolton designed the church as an amphitheater, and for good reason: its pastor was the spell-weaving Adam Clayton Powell Sr. His son won even more fame, first as a preacher there, then as Harlem's first black Congressman. The bold spirits of both men inform the place...
When the deal unraveled, lawyers for Eastern's creditors blamed Lorenzo and the unions for fumbling the question of who's in charge. But union lawyers said creditors had blocked the deal because they felt it did not spell out how Eastern would repay its debts...
...Alan D. Entin: "Kids get teased a lot when they have to explain the peculiarities of their family. The problem is that a kid knows when he or she is weird." Would the children of a marriage between, say, Jeremiah Shostak-Fielding and Maribel Johnson-Drexler ever learn to spell their full surname, provided that their parents could ever agree on just what it should be? And would that alliance completely unhinge data banks...