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Rob Sheffield

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rob Sheffield

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Rob Sheffield is saying that films aimed at grown-ups during the 1980s were generally bad, and the music targeting the same group was even worse. He uses examples like movies starring Kathleen Turner and albums by Sting to show that the culture for adults in that decade didn’t last or remain influential.

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