Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crime Fighting Can Be Fun. TV's glum professionals, from Sergeant Joe Friday to Lieut. Kojak, have given way to a new breed of lighthearted crime fighters, very '80s guys and gals who read the riot act with tongue firmly in cheek. The wisecracks are often tossed back and forth between a pair of mismatched partners, but these folks can laugh in the face of death too. (A cop on ABC's new Hawaiian Heat says to his buddy, who has just been lowered by helicopter to save his life: "Nice of you to drop...
...time The Man with Two Brains came out, Martin's stand-up audience had deserted him. A pity: they missed a small, funny film that provided, in its Frankenstein plot of a surgeon in love with the body of one woman and the brain of another, an '80s allegory of man's quest for Ms. Right...
...peasants, who make up 43% of the population. Largely conservative by nature, Polish farmers can, according to the opposition, nonetheless be moved by arguments showing that state mismanagement was mainly responsible for the disastrous decline in the country's agriculture in the late 1970s and early '80s, and for its continuing problems today...
...first step back from the piety-in-government excursion Americans have been on since Watergate. One day Ms. Ferraro's vice-presidential candidacy, perhaps her political career, hangs in the balance; the next day, after a tough and gutsy public performance-a Checkers for the '80s-she is back in gear, leaving us all to wonder if we hadn't lost our heads for just a moment...
...redesign in its history and the first in 21 years. In addition to the Tiegs cover, the "catalog of the future," as Sears now calls it, contains twelve pages of Tiegs in color and, in one 24-page section, appeals to the upwardly mobile young woman of the '80s with sexy models sporting slightly punk hairdos and clad in leather skirts, silk dresses and wool blazers. "Come share the excitement," teases the copy. "Looks that say you're going places." For the homey image with a difference, the catalog also carries twelve full-page photographs that...