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Posts Tagged: Pretty In Pink

Judging Kavanaugh

By Lisa Gabriele

September 27th, 2018

[W]omen won’t forget this come November and beyond.

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Tags: 1980s, adolescence, Brett Kavanaugh, Caitlin Flanagan, Christine Blasey Ford, date rape, Deborah Copaken, Deborah Ramirez, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, general hospital, Grease, Jian Ghomeshi, John Hockenberry, John Hughes, Julie Swetnick, Kavanaugh, Lisa Gabriele, Louis CK, Politics, Pretty In Pink, rape, Sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, Splendor in the Grass, teenagers, The Breakfast Club

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Remembering Molly

By Lisa Ellison

October 31st, 2015

Ten years later I still wondered about those aviator glasses and whether The Breakfast Club could restore us.

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Tags: 80s, AA, Addictiom, alcoholism, athlete, basketcase, brothers, criminal, daughters, Families, family, fashion, growing up, high school, hospitals, John Hughes, Lisa Ellison, Loneliness, love, Molly Ringwald, mothers, mothers and daughters, MTV, nerd, Pretty In Pink, princess, rehab, Sixteen Candles, sponge, suicide, The Breakfast Club, Vinnie Dombroski

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