Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League baby boomer Heidi Holland looks back on the 60s, 70s, and 80s and contemplates life, love, sex, work, friends, and lemon souffle. ten Tibetian Buddhist monks from DrepungLoseling Monastery, present an evening of sacredmusic and dance for world peace and healing.Sanders Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $18. Call 496-2222 fortickets and information...
...have a soft spot for old Andrew. He was my favorite brat packer back in the mid '80s. I adored the tortured journalist he played in "St. Elmo's Fire" and the tortured rich kids he played in "Pretty in Pink" and "Less than Zero." His on-screen whining and whimpering moved me. And he was cute. My heart warmed to see his adorable face, after all these years, in a real quality film--don't even mention "Weekend at Bernie's I & II." Actually any flash from the '80s warms my heart. As I'm writing this little intro...
...literary world was aghast at what the changed leadership would portend for the New Yorker. Brown was known primarily for rescuing tottering magazines; she was the chief architect of Vanity Fair's transformation into the hot book of the '80s. VF reflected that decade's zeitgeist, a dubious mix of camp and celebrity worship underlaid with thinly disguised cynicism. Tina Brown transformed it into the kind of magazine which would reside illicitly in the sock drawer of serious reader: titillating but not substantial...
...September 27, Tina Brown and her husband Harold Evans, president and publisher of Random House Trade Publishing Group, hosted a party at the New York Public Library to celebrate the publication of Richard Avedon's newest book. The usual suspects, leftovers from the '80s, were present in their sequined splendor, glorying in their celebrity...
...many Americans the '80s ended when, on a freeway in Los Angeles, the beating of a black motorist by white police officers was videotaped...