Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started way back when in college [Ryan attended the University of Maine in Orono] in the '80s. It actually wasn't called electronic back then; it was called industrial, and house music was just starting. I had a radio show on my college station, and I became obsessed with music from then. What became of that was me, from my obsession, trying to get other people into what I was hearing, which has brought me to this point. That's where I started, just college radio...
...proud to be a part of what it is and what goes on here. It's a little bit unique because you come here and there is one type of music being played on the second floor--'80s and new wave--and downstairs there's full-on club music, and on both floors there's a complete party atmosphere. Anyone who comes here will have a good time and leave with a smile on their face, and that is really all you can expect working in a club...
...Others wear '80s pants so tight they can feel them. The pants force them to suck in their stomachs and sit straight, straight up all class period...
Throughout the decades, fashion has been one of the gym's greatest attractions. Olivia Newton John started the fitness-look craze with her music video "Let's Get Physical" and the '80s flick "Flashdance" fed fuel to the fashion fire. While leg warmers and plastic pants rarely serve any functional purpose today, these antiquated workout staples have been replaced by a new type of Southern California gym couture--namely peroxide-tinted hair, G-string leotards and plastic breasts and pectoral muscles. I find the exponentially enlarged chests most fascinating about the gym, but amazingly enough, taut lycra seems...
...exporters. Union delegations representing everyone from teachers to teamsters are flocking in from 25 states and 143 nations. Dockworkers plan to shut down the port. Even the Wobblies are roused. The Puget Sound chapter of Industrial Workers of the World is orchestrating a student walkout. "In the early '80s, we gave up wages and benefits to be more globally competitive," says David Reid, 42, who nonetheless lost his job as a crane driver at Kaiser Aluminum. He has taken a course in civil disobedience to prepare for the protest. "It clicked," he says. "I am not a victim...