Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget: "Are you ready for me, Ralph?" The movie was Paul Brickman's uproarious young-'n'-dumb flick Risky Business, and no one was ready for De Mornay. She was a call girl with a heart of Kevlar, growling seductively at the stupefied Tom Cruise, who played a suburban high school senior whose parents had gone off on vacation. The script managed to satirize kids, adults, greed, sex, Porsches and the Princeton admissions process in less than two hours, and De Mornay was easily best-of-show. Thousands cheered. De Mornay went on to play a rock singer opposite Michael...
...office building. Molly's brother Kelly, 19, has cleared space on the kitchen table to do homework for his computer studies at the local community college. Beth, 21, is in the back of the house washing her blond hair. The whole place scans like Steven Spielberg's idea of suburban paradise...
...Breakfast Club (1985) and this spring's hit Pretty in Pink succeed because they are about the kids who go see them--not the locker-room sadists, lubricious cheerleaders and barons of barf who populate the Porky's films, but teendom's silent majority of average, middle-class suburban kids...
Doodling as he was questioned, occasionally smiling coyly, Ringleader Walker described a venal world made glamorous by the trappings of a cheap thriller: the miniature Minox camera for photographing documents, the clandestine drops in suburban Virginia, the rendezvous with Soviet agents in Vienna and Casablanca. "Do not squander your money," Walker said his Soviet contacts told him. "Don't buy a Mercedes...
...size and cost of home dishes dropped (from more than $10,000 just a few years ago to about $2,500 for many current models), the devices began to appear in urban and suburban areas, where more and more viewers are opting for dishes instead of cable. To retain control of their channels, the programmers turned to scrambling, in which the picture is electronically inverted and blurred. To unscramble it, a dish owner must buy a $395 decoder and, in the case of "premium" cable services, pay an extra monthly fee similar to that paid by cable subscribers...