Word: stand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henley responded to the crisis in classic rock-'n'-roll fashion: a fair amount of rambunctious confusion, running concurrently with some studious dissipation, followed by the release of his own solo album in 1982. I Can't Stand Still sold well, but nowhere near what it deserved to. It was a superb album, yet the solid commercial breakthrough would come with his second release, Building the Perfect Beast. Its keynote single, The Boys of Summer, a romantic song full of nostalgia and vitriol, won Henley a Grammy. Now Henley is closing out the '80s with a splendid third album...
...annual number of malpractice suits filed has doubled in the past decade and ushered in the era of defensive medicine and risk managers. No single factor has done more to distance physicians from | patients than the possibility that a patient may one day put a doctor on the witness stand...
...film partly on his life after being divorced from actress Penny Marshall, thinks he knows: "People say, 'Vive la difference,' but it's more like a cruel joke created by God. Men and women desperately want to be with each other, but at the same time they can't stand each other and don't understand each other...
...Mookie (Lee) hurls derogatory anti-Italian comments on the boss' son Pino (John Turturro), who insults him back with just as many racist stereotypes. Then the film cuts then to the policeman, who insults a Hispanic youth, who insults the Korean family who has recently opened up a vegetable stand on the block. The Korean man follows with his own insults about Jews. The circle of hatred, it seems, would go on endlessly, if there were any Jewish characters in the film to keep it going...
...After probably the second day of a heat wave, the demand becomes really high," Toro said. "It becomes so hot in people's apartments that they just can't stand it. People still have a bad memory of last summer, of its being hot forever...