Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawn as sharply as in any war, and there is no demilitarized zone. On one side is the "greaser," teen descendant of Elvis, Brando and James Dean; poor white trash and proud of it. On the other side is the "soc" (rhymes with gauche), spiffy as Pat Boone, sweet and snooty as Sandra Dee. The greasers are wild boys of the road, skipping school, making small trouble, ignoring their parents or forced to live without them...
...London meeting, the Saudis and their gulf allies suggested that the OPEC price be dropped $4, to $30. At the same time, they insisted that Nigeria boost its charge to $31.50. Reason: Nigeria's so-called sweet crude yields a particularly desirable mix of products after refining, so the Saudis must charge less than Nigeria to stay competitive. Nigeria, fearful of losing sales to its North Sea competitors, is so far sticking with its price...
John Sayles' Lianna (rhymes with Indiana) means to engage the middle-class emotions, then turn them subtly against the audience's expectations. Lianna (Linda Griffiths) has a sweet moonface and blue eyes that always look as if they have just left off crying. She has every reason to be sad: her husband, who teaches film at the local college, is an adulterous grouch; her two children do not offer quite enough challenge; her life is in limbo. So she tumbles into a lesbian affair with her night-school professor, Ruth (Jane Hallaren), to whom fond Lianna...
...knows what he is. "I'm a rompin', stompin', piano-playin' son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch. But a great son of a bitch." Here's to you, then, Jerry Lee Lewis, unreconstructed rocker and mean-mouthed, sweet-souled Louisiana country singer. A new twelve-album set, Jerry Lee Lewis: The Sun Years, covers the glory years from 1956 to 1963 and is assembled with the kind of reverence and archival zeal usually reserved for the cantatas of a J.S. Bach. The collection, sold in this country for under...
...touchstone of drama: in the profoundest Greek play, a man murders his father and marries his mother. Williams mesmerized as well as outraged playgoers with Orpheus Descending (murder by blowtorch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality) Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, fetishism, coprophagy...