Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most popular films of 1987 have a dark hue: violent policiers (Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, 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...
...misgivings of some dermatologists about the perpetual parade of glops and goos that promise a more youthful complexion, many doctors cautiously agree that the mounting clamor may be justified. "People have gone absolutely crazy about it," declares Duane Tucker, a Manhattan Beach, Calif., skin doctor. "When it comes to sun damage, it's the closest thing we have to a youth cream...
...vanished as well. What is more, their skin took on a rosy, youthful glow. The drug's developer, Dermatologist Albert Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania, was at first skeptical of the claims. But about a decade ago, he began studies to determine the effects of Retin-A on sun-damaged skin. With a team of researchers, Kligman took skin biopsies and examined the tissue microscopically. "To our surprise, there were changes that were quite dramatic, even startling," says Kligman, who published his findings last year in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Retin-A accelerated skin-cell...
BEATINGS, sexual perversion and political betrayal shake the cloistered campus of a tony British prep school!! Sounds like a sensationalist headline from London's Daily Sun or better yet a passage out of David Copper-field. Wrong on both counts. This intriguing plot comes from Julian Mitchell's 1981 West End hit Another Country...
...Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg grows up onscreen. -- Walker is a mock epic that lies grandly and giddily about Nicaragua...