Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarks like "I'm going to get to dance in a film in January, and it's going to be hot!" But the real celebrity fun comes with the far less recognizable faces--the Corey Harts and Quarterflashes that dominated the mainstream pop of the late '70s and early '80s. In one segment John Waite performs his only hit single, Missing You, wearing a gauze scarf and looking like David Duchovny digitally reinserted into a Wham! video. If that isn't diverting enough, there are always plenty of women dancing in handkerchief skirts while Dick Clark plays his role...
...institute, injuring a graduate student who opened it. After that they came to an airline executive, the computer-science departments at Vanderbilt and Berkeley, a University of Michigan professor. He got better at it as he went along, a self-taught killer. The FBI shined him up with an '80s nickname--Unabom, for his favorite targets, universities and airlines. And as it became clear that all the attacks looked to be the work of one man, the Unabom task force was born...
REMEMBER THE GREAT SAVINGS AND loan debacle of the '80s, when Uncle Sam was forced to spend $150 billion to bail out hundreds of thrifts that had made bad loans, largely for bad real estate? Japan, famous for its ability to copy and enlarge upon invention, has an S&L-like banking scandal of even greater proportion--perhaps a trillion dollars' worth. The fiasco is so large it could even disrupt Wall Street, which relies heavily on Japanese money...
...Many regulations were created around the industrial model of the 1970s and 80s," Vautin says. "In the last several years, there has been a greater level of interest in applying these regulations more broadly to places like research universities...
STING, UNLIKE BOY GEORGE AND David Lee Roth, will never be an answer to such trivia questions as, "Name a lead singer from an '80s megaband who went on to have a disappointing solo career." Sting has managed to stay relevant--and popular--by continuing to create gently innovative music that borrows from other sources so wisely and so well that the resulting sound is truly his own. "I'm interested in impure music," says Sting. "Pure rock, pure jazz or pure anything just doesn't interest me. This is the game I play." In that spirit...