Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well be that all the feverish last minute issue-spinning is pointless. The race will be decided by a special group of young, white, suburban voters: the 9 percent of the electorate that is still undecided. Since national elections tend to sway the undecided voters in a local election, the feeling in North Carolina is that Hunt and Helms are hostages to the political fortunes of Mondale and Reagan. They are thus both representative of and subject to the national forces that will decide the tenor of the next four years...
...friends are Jewish, the senator said, and they're among "the most intelligent people I know." But they're "too emotional" over the question of an undivided Jersusalem. His patronizing attitude ignores serious moral and foreign policy questions being asked by Jewish and non-Jewish voters alike. At a suburban Illinois synagogue last week. Percy suggested that Jews have to live in "the real world when it comes to school prayer"--as if all those who oppose voluntary school prayer live in some twilight zone of intolerance. Actually, Percy once lived in just such an unrealistic world; his position...
Fifteen year old Jake Livingston (Chris Collet) lives a seemingly ordinary suburban life, exposed even to that symbol of the suburban high school: The Coach. "This could be the most important thing you learn in school," coach tells his lacrosse following, which includes Jake. "I've got to teach you how to dry yourself after the shower. One time I had a bad case of athlete's foot. One night I woke up screaming. The infection had spread from my feet up to my crotch and that's how I lost one of my testicles...
...perky ears of the Mouseketeers. But there will always be a place in Fantasyland for Annette Funicello, 42. "Disney is close to my heart," says Funicello, who will see viewers real soon in Lots of Luck, a movie for the Disney cable channel. The comedy casts Funicello as a suburban housewife whose family gets rich on an incredible streak of contest winning but finally "goes back to being the nice family we once were." Next for Funicello? Would you believe a reunion with her old beach-blanket beau, Frankie Avalon, 44, complete with a-that's right-Beach Party...
...capital crime of this move is that Conti is not on screen enough. The inexplicably popular JoBeth Williams hogs more screen than her role or talent really deserve. She performs with commendable competence, but really, how hard is it to play a suburban housewife? Or a female Adam West...