Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul A. Volcker, the nation's chief central banker, is widely credited with reining in the rampant inflation of the late '70s and early '80s...
Standing by his tight money policy, the Federal Reserve Board chairman bit the bullet and guided the nation's economy into a period of renewed growth. Today, the once reviled central banker is widely credited with almost single-handedly curbing the runaway inflation of the late 1970s and early 80s...
...women desiring to disrobe in public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line of musclewomen from the American documentary Pumping Iron...
...custom-made Hawaiian shirts while crime busting in the islands. "And they're murder under a navy linen sports coat." Says Harriet Love, who carries a good supply of prime old Hawaiians at her store in Manhattan's SoHo district, "Grown men are following their antiheroes. Selleck is the '80s adventurer, in a way. He's casual, nice to women, and he wears Hawaiian shirts...
...terms with the avant-garde's startling modernist images, such as Stalin's dance for 19 ostriches or its chorus line of caricatured black mammies swaying to the strains of On the Beautiful Blue Danube. But those who did, witnessed the foundation of much of the art of the '80s...