Word: summer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lloyd, the English teenager who won prizes for her role in Wish You Were Here, imports a fetching presence and an acute mimicry to her Brooklyn punkster. The rest of the cast has fun playing in a farce summer-stocked with plot twists and cunning character studies. A perfect forgettable comedy -- now what was its name? Ah, yes. Tasty, brittle, sweet, of no nutritional value . . . Cookie...
Those minority students who do arrive on campus feel isolated. A resurgence of bigotry has caused many to drop out. Last summer, for example, arsonists at the University of Mississippi torched the school's first on-campus black fraternity house; last spring four black women at Smith College received racist notes. In the face of such hostility, the inducements to enroll -- scholarships, minority-student organizations -- seem pale. "Overt racial incidents can have a real psychological effect, even if they don't happen to you," says John Jackson, 23, a black at the University of Texas at Austin...
BUSINESS: The bulls of summer are setting records...
...return to sin," proclaimed the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. It is the lambada, a sensuous dance that sets the pelvis-to-pelvis physicality of Dirty Dancing to a steamy Brazilian beat. Spawned on the northeast coast of Brazil, the lambada has swept through France this summer. A soda commercial showing young bodies entwined in a lambada frenzy was an instant hit, and Lambada, a song that served as the ad's sound track, has sold more than 1 million copies...
...lambada is especially hot along the Cote d'Azur, where touring Brazilian dancers are showing French vacationers how to thrust their stuff. But is the lambada just this summer's hype? "It will become a classic," declares singer Loalwa Braz. "And it will be even more agreeable to dance in the winter. It's a way to keep warm...