Word: 1980s
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...more than just vulgar escapism. As the story caught on with urban audiences via home video, fans started filling in and expanding the story - going beyond the literal screenplay to construct alternate meanings and messages. Gradually it became a rallying cry for a subculture that was, in the early 1980s, just coming into its own. "A quarter-century after its release," Tucker writes, "it remains elusive yet pervasive, the movie that will not go away, but which pops up where you least expect it." (Read TIME's "Roots...
...sporting events and other prime-time TV, has left viewers vitriolic. In the ad, a giant red zero moves around the screen while a sedated-sounding man hauntingly drones the line "Saved by zero" - financing, get it? - over and over. The jingle is actually a re-recording of a 1980s song of the same name by British new-wave band the Fixx. "It's right at that border where it's catchy enough that it gets stuck in your head, but not good enough that you like it," says Dan Sarles, a business school graduate who is among a growing...
...dive. Royal Bank of Scotland Japan chief economist Junko Nishioka says that over the past two months, she has grown increasingly pessimistic. She sees Japan recording at least two years of negative growth, the first time that has happened since the property and banking bubbles burst in the late 1980s, leading to Japan's so-called Lost Decade. With weak export and domestic demand, she says, there is "no positive driver in the Japanese economy, if you think about the two-year horizon...
...this had happened in the 1980s, when ETA was stronger, it would have been an important arrest, but not a crucial one," says sociologist Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, ETA expert at the Juan March Institute, a Madrid-based think tank. "But there have been a lot of important arrests recently, which means that whoever replaces Txeroki won't have much experience, and that, in turn, will make them even weaker." (See Pictures of the Week...
...phenomenon, selling more than 120 million copies in 37 languages. The McWhirters were stringent fact-checkers, often traveling long distances to adjudicate whether potential-record holders met the book's standards. (Ross McWhirter was assassinated in 1975 by the IRA; Norris McWhirter quit editing the book in the mid-1980s). Record holders receive certificates from Guinness, though not all records are selected for inclusion in the book, which receives some 65,000 record claims every year. Rights to the book, which has evolved from an almanac into a glossy, hard-cover item replete with a holographic cover, 3D images...