Word: 80s
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...name Jack Roy, he quit show business and sold aluminum siding for 12 years. But in 1967, he returned with a new stage name and earned his first big break on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dangerfield's hard-luck shtick made him a TV staple in the '70s and '80s, and he starred in the slapstick screen comedies Caddyshack and Back to School?hits that brought him much respect...
...with a spot on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967. To avoid going on the road and leaving his children, he borrowed money and opened Dangerfield's club in New York City. His tie-tugging tics and depressive one-liners became a staple on TV in the 1970s and '80s; and, as a late-blooming movie star in films like Caddyshack and Back to School, he made his old-school comedy seem eternally young. - By Richard Zoglin
Still dancing around my room to 80s music...
...appetite is thought to have forged the local landforms, and one gets a sense of this in Marralwanga's Ngalyod and Yawkyawk, 1983, in which the two creatures consume each other. Mawurndjul's brother Jimmy Njiminjuma pushed the concept even further in his large-scale serpents from the mid '80s, which wrestle with the very edges of the frame. But no one inhabits Ngalyod better than Mawurndjul, whose increasingly abstract depictions give an insider view of the supreme being. "Where I live," he has said, "a Ngalyod lives under (water), but I paint her from inside my mind...
...professor at Radcliffe in the ’80s and ’90s, Davis taught a variety of writing seminars such as, “How to Keep a Journal” and “Autobiography as Detective Story.” Even as she aged, Davis remained sharp and committed to her students. She was named Teacher of the Year at Radcliffe when she was in her nineties...