Word: surfin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bold signs direct customers to the "surfin" department, and the company motto, also in English, is pure yuppie: "We make sure you're a winner." Says Isao Iwase, managing director of Oshman's in Tokyo: "The comfortable American life-style is being more widely accepted these days." With fall in the air, American baseball gear has given way to N.F.L. hats and jackets...
...goods, literally, before his time runs out. Many Soviet experts in Europe and Washington predict that he has less than two years to complete his reforms and get the store shelves filled with the things his workers want to buy. If Gorbachev fails, his audacious political rendition of Surfin' U.S.S.R. could suffer the fate that wave riders most dread: a wipeout...
...brilliant orange, and the blood of strafed civilians waters the countryside, turning it into poppy fields. The drama is desaturated too. The soldiers have no ideals to defend, just their asses; the accompanying music is not Samuel Barber but inane party rock of the '60s like Wooly Bully and Surfin' Bird. In this second section the movie becomes a notebook of anecdotes, always compelling, but rarely propelling the story toward its climax. Unlike Oliver Stone's Platoon, with which it will unfortunately be compared, Kubrick's film does not want to say every last word about Viet Nam. It wants...
...pool, of course, can replace the real thing on the West Coast. As the Beach Boys sang in their 1963 hit Surfin' U.S.A., "If everybody had an ocean/ Across the U.S.A./ Then everybody'd be surfin'/ Like Ca-li-for-ni-a." Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, 44, whose group celebrates its silver anniversary this year, bought a house near California's Rincon Beach, partly to be 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...
...boat slip into 12 ft. of water; in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Wilson, the Beach Boys' only genuine surfer, named the upbeat, harmonizing quintet that since 1961 has glorified the sea, the sun, teen love and cars in such hits as Good Vibrations, California Girls and Surfin' U.S.A. Although Wilson often feuded with other group members, he was on board for the satisfying moment last summer when President and Mrs. Reagan overruled Interior Secretary James Watt's tone-deaf putdown of the Beach Boys as "unwholesome...