Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Money is the long hair of the '80s...
What began as a defiant form of anti-shtik has become a dominant mode in the funny-peculiar '80s. It is saturating the big screen with the films of Albert Brooks (the mime), Steve Martin (funny balloon animals), Murray Langston (the paper-bagged Unknown Comic), Martin Mull (the Fernwood 2-Night talk-show host), Andy Kaufman (heterosexual wrestling), Lily Tomlin (Wayne Newton) and the now-ready-for-prime-time cutups of NBC's Saturday Night Live. It took over TV years ago-in 1975, when S.N.L. hit the air and became a focal point for the new comedy...
...80s are the decades of management," beams Donald Jacobs, dean of Northwestern University's Graduate School of Management. "At other times, the cream of American youth went into science, became law professors or went into government to reform the system. Now they are going to the grandes écoles of the M.B.A...
...Darling and Impagliazzo are this awesome the rest of the way, forget it. The former drew a dozen scouts to Cambridge, most equipped with speed guns that timed the junior's fastball consistently in the high 80s and once or twice in the 90s. What impressed them most was that this is how Darling looked with a 14-run lead, not exactly pressure conditions. He blew down the Crimson like candles on a birthday cake, fanning eight, allowing just two singles until he lost his concentration in the seventh. "Easily the best we've seen," said Martelli...
...test pilot, could not resist plugging the space shuttle's military possibilities. Said he, at a homecoming in Houston last week: "I think the American public is going to get their money's worth out of this baby. It will allow us to do in the '80s and '90s things we must do for defense...