Word: blue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHERE is this battlefield? It's in the mind of all Americans. Take Steve Olson, for example. Olson is a self-proclaimed spokesman for the blue-collar work force of America. Writing in a Newsweek commentary, he railed against the Nerds--the same ones he used to beat up in grade school--who are now running the factory where he works, the newspaper he reads and the rest of his country...
...Blue Velvet (1986). Deadpan humor and deadpan violence in small-town America. If Sinclair Lewis and Mickey Spillane had collaborated on a Sandra Dee movie, they might have created a dreamscape something like writer-director David Lynch's -- vivid, dislocating, utterly original...
...have long concentrated on two dangers, each a variant of a devastating episode that occurred about a half-century ago. One is an armored attack on Western Europe, a replay of Hitler's dash to the English Channel. The other is a nuclear Pearl Harbor, a bolt-from-the-blue attack by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles that would catch American weapons sleeping in their silos...
...first mass-production models rolled off the assembly line in 1964. Its motorcycle- size two-stroke engine coughs out more pollution than almost any other auto. Often the motor's two cylinders come on line one at a time until they sputter in unison in a puff of blue smoke, sounding uncannily like an ancient sewing machine...