Word: 1980s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BERNARD L. PARHARM CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Once upon a time, Harvard radio was a hip-hop Mecca. This past semester, a handful of students tried to bring back the glory. During the mid-1980s and early 1990s, the WHRB hip-hop department—known as “The Dark Side”—hosted “Street Beat,” one of college radio’s seminal rap programs. The show also spawned a campus newsletter by the same name, which later became one of the premier journals of hip hop culture...
He’s what you might call “street.” Indeed, the 36-year-old Boston MC is so dedicated to his on-stage persona that he doesn’t give out his real name to reporters. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, he toured under another moniker—A-Train—with now-all-but-forgotten Boston greats like Edo G and The Almighty RSO. Today, he runs a website for local hip-hop artists, and acts as a historian and elder statesman for Boston...
...1980s and early '90s, the Chicago postal system couldn't exactly be counted on to deliver. Literally tons of mishandled mail was unearthed in the basements, backyards and car trunks of active and retired workers. A government task force of postal experts declared the city?s postal system "in disrepair." More than a decade later the service problems have been largely cleared up, but one monumental emblem of those humiliating bygone days-all 2.5 million square feet of it-still sits undisturbed...
...diet; you also have to look at the types of fat-particularly saturated and trans fats-as well as exercise and physical activity levels. Why didn?t the study focus more intently on these variables? Researchers were not as aware of how important they were back in the late 1980s, when they were designing the trial...
...Vancouver's celebrated Emily Carr College of Art and Design, where he had brushed up against Pop, Minimalism, Post-Minimalism and Conceptualism. One big influence--although he saw their work only in photographs--was New York City artists who played with the idea of consumer culture in the 1980s--think of Jeff Koons suspending those basketballs in fish tanks like miraculous relics, or Haim Steinbach, who simply placed consumer goods on nicely laminated wooden shelves, sleek altars for sacred merchandise. Five years after he finished school, Jungen had his first show. One year later, he made the first Prototype...