Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason he feels this way may be his concern about declining standards in film making. "They don't make them any more like we made them then," muses Reagan, looking down on Lake Michigan. "We used to fret a little bit under the strict production code-rules, morality and so forth. It made for great writing. Today they can just turn to obscenities or profanity. The oldest rule is that you can't do anything onstage that's as good as the audience's imagination. Today they don't leave anything to the imagination...
...black market. Some sell their coupons for cash (as little as 100 on the dollar). The stamps are then resold several times, moving from one middleman to the next before being turned in at a bank by a grocery store. All such transactions violate the U.S. Criminal Code and carry penalties of up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine...
...even available in lightly spiced series, such as Wildfire (Scholastic) and Sweet Dreams (Bantam), that feature adolescent romances like Saturday Night Date and I've Got a Crush on You. Many heroines in these confections never get to the first kiss. For boys there are thrillers like Your Code Name Is Jonah in Bantam's Choose Your Own Adventure series. These are not traditional adventure narratives. Like Dungeons and Dragons, they allow teen and preteen readers to select their own plots. In The Abominable Snowman, for instance, the reader is a Mount Everest climber searching for the yeti...
...wasted word or gesture, is the product of another time and place: Paris, 1955. It was a period when French cineastes noted that two things they admired, American genre movies and existential philosophy, had one thing in common: an admiration for the heroic figure who defined himself and his code of personal honor by plain action rather than fancy words. Writer-Director Melville (who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, borrowed his nom de screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world of official French cinema. To scrape...
...bullet creases his cheek-not a word, not a whine, not so much as a flinch. In The Challenge, Scott Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck in dirt for five days; gets karated or garroted every five minutes. So reads the code of the Old West (in Barbarosa) and modern Japan (in The Challenge): the rite of passage has become a suicidal gauntlet. Call it machochism...