Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truly conveyed was the sense of isolation at the top. Lansbury proved an essentially private woman, who needed to close her dressing room door to escape the prying eyes of the public. The kind of woman who would close her dressing room door to insulate herself from the moral wasteland that is the entertainment world...
There are a variety of possible reasons for this. For one thing, in the moral wasteland that is our entertainment industry, the idea of voting for the sentimental favorite has a tremendous psychological appeal...
...Square becomes a wasteland of banks and boutiques, all of the old hangouts that the alumni reminisce about are gone or going. Students have no place to meet and hang out. The administration could provide the lecture hall with needed repairs and redesign it to hold a few places where students could buy a hamburger and fries, sit, bullshit and people-watch until three in the morning on a Friday night...
...portraying a U.S. turned into a wasteland by repressive Soviet invaders, Amerika will undoubtedly provide support for conservatives who advocate constant vigilance against the Soviet threat. Indeed, the project was spurred by complaints about ABC's controversial antinuclear drama The Day After. In a 1983 newspaper column, Author and Critic Ben Stein (The View from Sunset Boulevard) proposed that to balance that film's allegedly liberal tilt the network ought to make a movie about what life in the U.S. would be like under a Soviet regime. Brandon Stoddard, then head of ABC movies and mini-series and now programming...
...Brooklyn's notorious Brownsville district, she would have laughed. The average price for decent housing in adjoining neighborhoods is $80,000, far above what her husband Melvin, a package loader with United Parcel Service, could swing on a salary of just under $30,000. Moreover, Junius Street was a wasteland of vandalized buildings and rubble-strewn vacant lots, not even a place "that I wanted my car to break down in," says Jones, 48. Yet in August 1984 the Joneses and their two children moved from a nearby public-housing project into a spanking-new two-bedroom house, complete with...