Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this comes since '69," Pusey says, convinced that he was there when the tides changed. "Since you were born, really--you never knew what a pleasant world it was before then. After [World War II], and before all this trouble came, was the period when all of the forces were creative, and helping higher education. That's when the American universities, about 20 of them, became the great institutions in the world. It was a real joy to have been identified with...
...decade marked by the rise of yuppies and "New Age" music, it seems many composers have fallen into the trap of producing uplifting soundtracks that are pleasant to listen to but which are endlessly repetitive in their efforts to be relaxing...
...audience. In mall-town America, a modest queue forms at the local Googolplex to see a new comedy starring Tom Hanks, exemplary nice guy. This time, the overgrown kid from Big is playing Ray Peterson, an amiable businessman whose idea of an O.K. vacation is to hang around his pleasant home in numbingly normal Hinckley Hills and be lazy. Let his wife (Carrie Fisher) and son go to their lakeside cottage; he'll just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently moved next door. These people talk funny; they...
...single parent of a two-year-old daughter, she obtained a mortgage through a program that local bankers set up last year after a newspaper charged that the lenders were deliberately redlining -- or boycotting -- Atlanta's black communities. After hunting for a year for an affordable home in a pleasant neighborhood, Gray took out a 9.25% fixed-rate mortgage. Even then she needed help from her parents to make the $2,500 down payment on her $50,000, three-bedroom home. But without the bank program, she says, "I would still be in my parents' home...
...Greece for a holiday and her temptation to stay there -- into genuine introspection. It's easy to see why Collins, who originated the role in London, last month won the Olivier Award for that portrayal. Praise belongs as well to designer Bruno Santini, who makes the kitchen so pleasant and homey that one realizes its constriction only in the second act, as Shirley sprawls on a rocky seaside outcropping beneath an azure Mediterranean sky. The visual metaphor, like the play, is obvious yet enchanting...