Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stakeout), corrosive Viet Nam memorials (Platoon and Full Metal Jacket), thrillers about sexual anxiety (Fatal Attraction). Steven Spielberg has flown to the dark side of E.T.: in Empire of the Sun a boy goes to war, and nearly goes mad. Even the comedies are cynical. The Secret of My Success got Michael J. Fox into bed with his uncle's wife to help advance his career. The Witches of Eastwick sent Satan to defeat at the caressing hands of three ravishing feminists. This week's predictable hit, Throw Momma from the Train, is a jolly farce about matricide...
...laugh-nightmare when he anchors the network news and sweats his career down the tubes. (Says one appalled technician: "This is more than Nixon ever sweated.") Hurt is neat too, never standing safely outside his character, always allowing Tom to find the humor in his too-rapid success, locating a dimness behind his eyes when Tom is asked a tough question -- and for Tom, poor soulless sensation-to-be, all questions are tough ones. As for Hunter, she graduates with honors from off-Broadway (The Miss Firecracker Contest) and off-Hollywood (Raising Arizona) to fill the center of this demanding...
Mickey and Bobby do find some initial success. Their first day in town they land jobs with Booger McCoy (Harry S. Murphy), a big, paranoid toolpusher who's been pushing tools for three days straight, and Mickey is confident he can teach Bobby the meaning of "real work." Then the going gets though, and the tough keep coming to town...
Since the departure of the two captains, Harvard has had less than smashing success from long range. The Crimson is shooting only 37 percent from behind the line, while its opponents are hitting better than 45 percent of their three-point tries...
Having the most success at the triple plays have been James and forward Kevin Collins. James is 6-for-9 (67 percent) and Collins is 3-for-5 (60 percent) from three-point range...