Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theater succeed in wooing young people? George Wachtel, who conducted the 1997 audience study, blames their lack of interest on a 1980s decline in arts education in schools. "Today's 18-to-24-year-olds did not have the exposure in their formative years," he says. Most Broadway shows, along with groups like the Theatre Development Fund, are trying to address that by sponsoring organized class visits and events like Kids' Night, when children accompanied by an adult can get in free. Another factor keeping kids away, of course, is high ticket prices. Since its opening, Rent has set aside...
Nancy Stone, a Virginia-based retail consultant, notes that such efforts at customer service fell into disuse back in the 1980s, when commercial real estate prices soared and retailers became obsessed with packing more merchandise into stores. Smart retailers now aim to "give the customer a feeling of familiarity, keep her in the store, make her linger," says Stone. Even small amenities like a coffee bar, says Martin Pegler, a professor of merchandising at Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, can make customers feel more comfortable in a store. "It's not giggles and bubblegum and balloons," says Pegler...
Most undergraduates were about 10 years old when Tom Wolfe's explosive first book, Bonfire of the Vanities, emerged to wild popularity in the late 1980s. But do not let the terrible movie adaptation prejudice you against reading the book. Bonfire captured the black comedy of American society and justice during the Me decade; the story of Sherman McCoy's encounter with Reverend Bacon and Henry Lamb presaged the Tawana Brawley-Al Sharpton scam with eerie accuracy. Given the book's success, one can understand the promotional circus surrounding A Man in Full, Wolfe's newest book, which earned...
...closeup view of Seaboard, let's begin with Albert Lea. For most of this century, Wilson Foods operated that pork plant and was the town's largest employer. Wilson fell on hard times in the early 1980s, cut workers' average annual pay from $22,200 to $16,600 and eventually sold the plant to Farmstead Foods. In turn, that company went belly-up a few years later, after it lost its biggest customer--Wilson. Then, in December 1990, just as workers were receiving the last of their unemployment checks, Seaboard appeared...
...report says the figure is consistent with the average yearly murder rate of 2.5 during the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cambridge had a murder rate...