Word: 1980s
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...excess and self-indulgence of the "Me Decade" were at their peak. The movie's pivotal sequence, a New Year's party celebrating the arrival of 1980, climaxes when one tortured porn groupie executes his wandering wife before blowing his brains out at the stroke of midnight. During the 1980s, selfish gratification takes on a colder, nastier edge, and the consequences finally came home to roost. Boogie Nights sends its characters into a spiral of degeneration. As each character faces the ramifications of their depraved life, the porn industry turns to kink and violence in order to keep up with...
...case, most of Diana's popularity had nothing to do with anything that she did. Diana had rarity value: Great Britain had not had a Princess of Wales since Princess Mary of Teck married the future George V in 1893. Diana also had escapist value: Margaret Thatcher's early 1980s Britain was one of economic depression...
...swift and simple solution, right? Well, no. Outlawing drugs like LSD (in the 1960s) and Ecstasy (in the 1980s) was easy since they have no government-acknowledged medical use and aren't made by licensed firms. But ketamine and other drugs that are actually medicines are different. Senator Joseph Biden discovered how delicate drug politics can be last year when he designed a bill to control ketamine and the so-called date-rape drug Rohypnol more closely. At the time, rapists' use of the latter to sedate victims had sparked an outcry, but the Rohypnol-controlling part of the legislation...
...handsome, 31-year-old former actor, Footlik appeared in several forgettable 1980s flicks, including Teen Wolf, with Michael J. Fox, and Iron Eagle, with Louis Gossett Jr., as well as in TV ads for McDonald's and American Airlines. He recently helped pave the way for Defago to appear before the Chicago Board of Rabbis and admit to Switzerland's numerous transgressions during and after World War II. So far, the new ambassador's shtick is playing a lot better than that of his predecessor, Carlo Jagmetti, who resigned in disgrace after saying that Switzerland...
Ahtisaari worked extensively with the UN throughout the 1980s and 1990s in many capacities...