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...BAD’After graduation, she interned at The Washington Post for three months, where she had the opportunity to write stories about the air traffic control strike of 1981. She then took a reporting position at The Miami Herald, where the term “crazy 80s?? took on a whole new meaning. “Every possible reporter was completely deployed on covering the riots,” she remembers. “You couldn’t believe the stuff you were covering. And then two years into it, the Marriott Boat lift occurred. There...
...never diminish. We all gave up somewhere around Achtung Baby, when the group’s drastic immersion into 90’s alternative failed to collapse as drastically as we wanted it to, given the band’s self-righteousness and potential for pretension by the 80s?? close. The cycle repeated, though, and we kept watching through the relative failures of experimental albums Zooropa and Pop, and as the band won back their audience of baby boomers and their kids with the sappy balladry of 2000’s All that You Can?...
Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 similarly themed study of the 80s?? destruction of the brightest stars of 70s era pornography, loosely describes the robbery of Eddie Nash’s house at the nadir of the Holmes-like protagonist’s existence. Yet his valley is a brief stop on the road to happiness and a renewed friendship, allowing the audience to believe in redemption...
...Believe me,” he adds, “I know the best of the journalists from Nigeria who were educated here in the ’80s??they are doing odd jobs in New York because nobody was ready to give them a chance. Because nobody thought they knew anything...
Twenty-first century metal, championed in different fashions by both System of a Down and Slipknot, offers more than the hedonistic hair bands or Satanic ritualists of the 80s??it’s louder, it’s angrier and, more importantly, it’s often smarter...