Word: 80s
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...cubes in their drinks, guests did their best Gunther impression until well past 5 AM. SATURDAY Harvard students attempted to look somewhat state-school-esque, with parties from Mather to the Quad. Hey, we’ve got to impress the pre-frosh, right? Leverett’s biannual 80s dance was the same as it ever was (Talking Heads, anyone?), but still totally radical. The Eliot Cockpit served up a Kool-Aid punch out of one of those ubiquitous dining hall urns that prompted one prefrosh to ask “Do you guys have any more coffee...
...software and services firm and an online public record information provider, and was a principle of a boutique business strategy and investment firm, before he took the wheel at Zipcar in 2003, three years after the cars first hit the road. "After growing up in Pittsburgh in the 80s watching the decline of the steel industry, I never wanted to be at the twilight of a company," he says. "I'm interested in creating new categories and shifting industry in some way." He's done just that, fostering the emergence of car sharing as a new transportation category. Under Griffith...
...authoritarian state. As part of his missionary work, he became involved in human-rights issues and was soon thrown out of the country for handing out leaflets that criticized the Seoul regime. After a new government came to power, he returned to Seoul in the late '80s and went back a third time in 1996. South Korea was by then a democratic, prosperous nation, but North Korea was in the midst of a horrific famine. "One night it just dawned on me. I wasn't here this time for South Korea. I was here for the North...
...CHALLENGE Updating the ultimate '80s cop show...
...Miami, for starters. Style-conscious director Michael Mann, who executive-produced Vice for TV, took the original show's atmospherics from a provincial Miami that hid its grit under pink stucco. Now it's a boomtown, flush with international cash and bristling with glassy towers. The crime scene in '80s Miami, Mann says, "was just small-town cocaine cowboys. Now, everything seems to have a couple of zeroes added to the end of it." Gone too are the signature pastels. As for the substance, the director insisted on an R rating, allowing the movie to show the sex and violence...