Word: prettiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falls in love. Her father (Vincent Gardenia), who claims he can't fall asleep because "it's too much like death," slinks out for a bit of tart on the side. Loretta's mother (Olympia Dukakis) dines furtively with a professor (John Mahoney) who keeps striking out with his prettiest students. "I'm too old for you," Mother tells the prof, to which he gives the eternal male response: "I'm too old for me. That's my predicament." And Loretta, just engaged to an agreeable loser (Danny Aiello), is seduced by her fiance's one-handed brother Ronny (Nicolas...
...Babbitt proved more fox than fowl. He dated the prettiest cheerleaders, while quietly befriending everyone from chicano gang members to red-necks and jocks, some of whom he tutored in their problem subjects. Despite his gawkiness and good grades, Babbitt was elected student body president...
Hard to believe, but Paul Simon was, and his mother saved the yellowed newspaper clipping to prove it. Simon, then three, was voted the "prettiest boy baby" by his hometown paper, the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard...
...AIDS epidemic, And the Band Played On (St. Martin's Press; 630 pages; $24.95). Zero, says Author Randy Shilts, was Gaetan Dugas, a handsome blond steward for Air Canada, who used to survey the men on offer in gay bars and announce with satisfaction, "I'm the prettiest one." Using airline passes, he traveled extensively and picked up men wherever he went. Dugas developed Kaposi's sarcoma, a form of skin cancer common to AIDS victims, in June 1980, before the epidemic had been perceived by physicians. Told later he was endangering anyone he slept with, Dugas unrepentantly carried...
...sweat. She coaxes the back-street torch song Saving All My Love for You until the song's Other Woman sounds like a little girl lost in faded rapture. She stands up to the string section in that anthem of enlightened egotism, Greatest Love of All, finding the prettiest weave of velvet and voltage. Then the synthesized percussion starts blasting, and she escalates into purring teen ecstasy for How Will I Know and her new hit I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me). This is infectious, can't-sit-down music, and her performance dares the listener...