Word: 80s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Living On screens and playing fields and in high-fashion ads, more men are turning up unshaven. Can stubble be the look of the '80s...
Isaacson loves to make celebrities sweat, and they love to let him. He is among the best known of a bustling new breed: personal trainers who suddenly can be found in every major U.S. city where there is money and fat to burn. Trainers are to the narcissistic '80s what private fencing masters and dancing teachers were to an earlier time. These status symbols in sweat socks, always perfectly fit, fit perfectly. They signal affluence (private hour-long sessions at a studio or client's home run $50 to $150) without suggesting decadence. Los Angeles, a city that has always...
...year-old incident still have the power to shock? Indeed it does, and Nelson DeMille, who served as a lieutenant in Viet Nam, knows exactly how to employ his surge within us"), but the military scenes have the gunmetal ring of authenticity. This is The Caine Mutiny of the '80s, a long, over-the-shoulder look at a time that grows larger as it recedes from sight...
...million at midnight box offices. But R.H.P.S. is more than a sleeper hit for insomniacs. It is a cross-generational phenomenon, an evocation of '50s monster movies wrapped in the anything-goes spirit of the '60s that found a niche in the '70s and has blossomed in the '80s into a rite of passage for millions of American teenagers. As Richard O'Brien, the 43-year-old New Zealand-born Londoner who wrote Rocky's script, music and lyrics, noted on its tenth anniversary, "The movie is really an excuse for dressing up and having a party...
...replied, "Well, not many 90-year-olds just came back from performing in Europe." Less than a year later, Hall was back on the road appearing in the concert halls of Belgium and the Netherlands with the Young@Heart Chorus, a 21-member Northampton, Mass., group in their 70s, 80s and 90s that performs rock-'n'-roll classics by such masters as the Clash, the Rolling Stones, Hendrix and Springsteen on a grueling touring schedule around the globe...