Word: surfer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Musing about the international itinerary of teen trendiness, Marciano adds, "American kids are inspired by the French, and the French are inspired by Californians." He points out that eye-scorching colors have been part of the Europeanized surfer look for the past three years. Dress-code breakers, think it over. How about a blazer that is citrus colored instead of navy? What about a pleated uniform skirt covered not with muted plaid but with surfer slogans? And traditionalists: What about some nice blue flannel bike-racing shorts? Wait till next year...
...dressing room, teases out her hair and does her Whoopi Goldberg routine instead -- head rocking brainlessly from side to side, arms flopping in front of her like windshield wipers in the delay mode -- a white woman from Illinois imitating a black woman from New York imitating a surfer chick from California...
...SECOND act opens with the cast in surfer garb dancing in the aisles to "Under The Boardwalk" a la Wuthering Heights. But why not? Happy days are here again, the Ice Age has thawed, the dinosaur is extinct, the tomato is edible and the human race celebrates at a convention of mammals in Atlantic City...
...know all of this is sort of trivial, but it's heartfelt nonetheless. I've always believed that if you're going to talk like a surfer, you have to surf, and if you're going to talk dirty, you have to talk dirty right. Besides, I like always get really pissed out when I hear people talk like that...
...near one of his favorite spots. "Surfing is probably my only feeling of freedom," says Johnston. "My mortgage payments are not in the water with me." John Milius, 42, co-writer of Apocalypse Now and writer-director of Big Wednesday, the 1978 surfing epic, calls himself a surfer first and anything else second. "I'll be surfing until they carry me away," Milius says...