Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tribal beads for briefcases and business suits, bigotry and prejudice are making a comeback. Underlying this ugly renaissance is a change in the nation's political climate from the idealism that spawned the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the me-first ethic that has flourished in the '80s. Many educators blame recent outbreaks of campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality. "We failed to help our children learn the lessons we learned," says Mary Maples Dunn, president of Smith College in Northampton, Mass...
...early '80s, Steve Martin said, "I believe that Ronald Reagan will make this country what it once was: a polar region covered with ice." While the legacy of Ronald Reagan isn't quite that dramatic, he has been responsible for an increased coolness in America's political and moral climate...
...with "the Donald," as Trump's wife Ivana sometimes calls him. You may think you know Trump already, but this trip will show you a different side of a man who has come to embody the acquisitive '80s...
...introduced in 1960, women embraced them as a dream drug: an easy, reliable and safe way to prevent pregnancy. But fears spread in the 1970s, after researchers found that users of the Pill, particularly smokers, were somewhat more vulnerable than other women to heart attacks and strokes. In the '80s the Pill became attractive again after scientists showed that it helps protect against ovarian and endometrial cancer...
...those shows would seem a godsend to the Wan White Way of the '80s. With three striking exceptions -- Dreamgirls, Big River and Into the Woods -- pretty much every noteworthy musical of the decade has been a revival, a recycling of old songs, an import (generally from Britain) or a critical smash but commercial also-ran. The current season, which by Broadway's calendar began in May, is more miserable than most. Its first American musical, Carrie, actually a slightly postponed holdover from last season, closed within five performances at a record loss of $7 million. The sole entry since, Legs...