Word: 80s
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...College.Instead of replacing the CLC with a directly elected twin, the SEC, we recommend that the funding for campus-wide events be channeled to groups that can have the most impact on student life: HoCos and the FYSC. HoCo-planned events such as the Mather Lather and the Leverett 80s dance are among the best large-scale gatherings on this campus, and while the FYSC throws a fine Freshman Formal, it could do a lot more to unite the freshman class if it received greater funding. Intimately connected to student life through the physical connection of the Houses and freshman...
...acting bug had bitten these atrocious-film lovers. After a few months, their thespian forces gathered yet again, this time for a rendition of the ’80s classic “Dirty Dancing.” But because they had publicized to Leverett’s e-mail open list and were performing in the more-frequented JCR, something funny happened: other people showed up. “A frightening amount of people came,” says DiMaggio...
...believed themselves experts on the movie business; they pitied Gaghan because, as everyone knows, so few scripts ever get filmed. "That mix of interest and condescension was really useful. 'Such a shame you'll never get your movie made.' 'Yep, now tell me how you armed Saddam in the '80s...
...conventions that the perpetrators are sending up and putting down. That may be so, but a glance at five kinds of comedy spanning 60 years proves that the truly funny is universal. A silent star can still make us laugh and gasp at his exertions. Teen foibles from the '80s can touch us today. All of which raises the creepy threat of a Rob Schneider retrospective at some film museum...
BROOKS: Abortion rates are down a third, divorce rates are down, crime rates are down some 70%, school violence is down, suicide rates, drug addiction--all of the social indicators that were going the wrong way in the '70s and '80s turned around in the early '90s or so, and are still going in the right direction. So to me, we've changed the way we raise kids, and we probably made them a little more boring, but it is a remarkable generation of wholesomeness. If you don't like wholesomeness, then you're a pessimist, but if you sort...