Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Outing Club is one of the Harvard's oldest organizations, dating back to the 1920s. In the club's early years, club members were primarily concerned with mapping unfamiliar territories, of which their were still many in the New England area. By the `70s and `80s, it was not unknown for club members to travel around the globe. In fact, a few even hiked up some of the world's tallest mountains, including Mount McKinley. Today, however, the club has toned down its transcontinental trekking...
...about the actor's longtime battle with drugs and his myriad legal wrangles. The son of heralded underground director Robert Downey (Putney Swope), he got small movie roles until a season-long stint on Saturday Night Live served as a springboard into "brat-pack" films in the mid-'80s. The brilliance he displayed in such roles as the druggy Gen-Xer in 1987's Less Than Zero and later in his portrayal of Charlie Chaplin deepened the tragedy as he began spiraling down into a cycle of drug arrests, jail sentences and relapses...
...rock shocks like that--when pop music parts, Red Sea-like, to reveal all the misogyny and ugliness beneath--that gave rise to progressive/alternative rock in the early '80s. And one of the champions of the form over the past 17 years has been the New York City band Sonic Youth. "We got past the hardest part together," says band member Thurston Moore, 39, "which was getting through our 20s and 30s together." Sonic Youth doesn't embrace the swagger and sexual bravado of mainstream rock. The band's lyrics are often deliberately remote, seeking to capture, through abstract imagery...
...posh outhouses. When she bumped into one of the hot security guys, Dr. Know started a party of her own. There's just something about a man with a walkie talkie ("cake in four minutes, cake in four. over") to get a girl all a twitter. Besides, that '80s music made Dr. K want to shout, shout...
DIED. WENDY O. WILLIAMS, 48, radically raunchy star of the '80s punk band the Plasmatics who shocked fans with her onstage shenanigans (chain-sawing guitars sometimes clad in little more than strategically placed electrical tape); of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Storrs, Conn...