Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late '80s, the time has again come for a fresh cast of characters. This time their faces show the lines of age and experience because the new motto may well be MATURITY SELLS. In a new Eastern Air Lines ad, the happy vacationers cavorting on the beach are over 60. In the McDonald's commercial, the Lothario with an eye for the female customer is 75 if he's a day. And the lady who takes the Subaru for a joyride to the pulsing music of La Bamba must be pushing...
Doug Henwood, publisher of the Left Business Observer,says "LBOs sort of made economic sense in the early '70s and '80s when they were small [transactions]." But "they no longer make sense because I don't see how we can finance the debt," he adds...
Parsons' work has been revived in the '80s by European scholars like Jurgen Habermas and American sociologists such as Jeffrey C. Alexander '69 of the University of California at Los Angeles...
...80s are wilder than the '60s. Rock music is much wilder. Just think how tame the Beatles' music is today: it's almost Muzak. And the sexual revolution -- in the mid-'60s the idea of a coed dorm, putting those nubile young things and these young men in the season of the rising sap in the same dormitories, on the same floors! Now the coed dorm is like I-95. It's there. It hums. And you don't notice...
...reproduction of a well-known painting to its original is lacking, because his paintings are all based on silk-screen reproduction of photographic images. Whether flat and grainy, as in the '60s, or worked up with a creamy slather of broad-brush pigment, as in the '70s and '80s, they are essentially simulations of the act of painting, types of visual packaging...