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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story to a decrepit Brooklyn Central High and populates it with Sesame Street renegades. Each class puts on a musical skit, or "sing," with groups led by a black, a Greek, an Italian and a Jew -- the "rainbow coalition" that exists only in Hollywood musicals. Yes, the tough Italian stud (Peter Dobson) falls for the sweet Jewish girl (Jessica Steen). And, honest, when the star of her skit gets knocked unconscious, the stud takes over and saves the show. You're going out there a punkster, but you've got to come back a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Life Ain't Worth Livin' | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...star, I thought my mother deserved a Mercedes." While in school, Hudson said, he had a private apartment and drove a Mazda RX7. How did he afford it? "Easy," he says. Hudson, 25, played basketball for a time overseas. Today he wears $450 amber-tinted sunglasses and a diamond stud in his left ear. He still talks about making the N.B.A., but a knee injury he suffered in college makes that a long shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Playing To Win in Vegas | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...Deserve This?: an illiterate woman has quickie sex with a muscular student in the shower stall of the kendo academy where she scrubs floors. Matador: a beyond-gorgeous woman picks up a stranger, makes violent love, then stabs him to death with her hatpin. Law of Desire: a young stud is directed through some steamy autoeroticism by an unseen older man. Shock the bourgeoisie? The opening scenes in Pedro Almodovar's films seem designed to shock the Borgias. And that's just for appetizers. The one aesthetic commandment of this Spanish writer-director might read: Begin in delirium, then floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pedro on The Verge of a Nervy Breakthrough | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...saying, "My way or the highway." Having this bit of jewel in my nose means I cannot get a job on Wall Street and it means I don't attract the kind of men who wouldn't be attracted to the kind of woman who wears a stud in her nose. I don't think I'm missing much...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Nose Rings and Narcissism | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...takes some magic and luck, and a grasp of that most chimerical substance, a child's imagination, to make an eternal toy. The best of them are infinitely simple and endlessly entertaining. There are nearly 103 million ways, for example, in which six eight-stud Lego bricks of the same color can be joined together. An artist in Colorado has re-created part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling on his Etch A Sketch. A classic toy, says John Brandt, manager of Toys International in Los Angeles, "is something where the child's imagination is the most important thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: What Do You Want from Santa? | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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