Word: watching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obstacle a married movie star must overcome is the time he spends away from his wife. (Another annoyance is tabloid tales of imminent splitsville, and Cruise has heard those too.) But Cruise and his wife, actress Mimi Rogers | (Someone to Watch Over Me), spend as much time together as possible in their New York City apartment and visit each other when they are filming in far-flung locations. Cruise says it helps to have a wife in the business: "It's like trying to explain how driving a race car feels. You can't do it. They...
...holds that women have no instinct for compromise and negotiation. Ranging widely, Mamet allows that "I am, by nature and profession, a browser." With the expanded confidence that comes with success and fame, he ambles in where Broadway and Hollywood angels fear to tread. It is fun to watch him keep his balance...
...easiest, most direct way for people to make a difference is to watch what they throw away. Every year more than 220 million trees are cut down just to make U.S. newspapers, the majority of which are tossed into the trash. Americans discard enough aluminum cans each year to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet four times over. Quite obviously, says Earth Day 1990 chairman Denis Hayes, "the answer to the solid-waste problem is not figuring out some way to compact it or to incinerate it; the answer is to reduce...
...Roberto Duran, 38, was the top-grossing fight in history. Next month George Foreman, now bigger than Mount Rushmore and twice as old, will face perennial white heavyweight Gerry Cooney. Someone will get hurt -- probably the first one who throws a punch -- and people will pay to watch. Like rock 'n' roll, sports used to be a young man's game. But with the graying of America, the Stones go rolling on, and geriatric jocks are big business...
...ACTUALLY fairly unlikely that any one person or group will win. But people tend to describe history as if they already have. Just watch the 3000 review shows about to appear on television, all entitled, "looking back at the 1980s." And ask yourself how you would write the history of the decade...