Word: 80s
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Most of the interviews with Jean Dominique, his wife Michelle and employees of Radio Haiti Inter were filmed in the late 80s and early 90s, giving even this footage a sense of vintage. Other interviews are more recent, filmed in the late 90s, following the resurrection of the Aristide regime after an American military force landed on the island as peackeepers. Not only are these dispersed interviews helpful in gauging the difference in the political scene in such a crucial decade, shining light on a political history that is muddled in many newspaper accounts’ fast and loose renderings...
...Night at the Movies,” the show paid homage to the smooth synthesis of cinema with four separate themes: “Classic Hollywood,” “Blaxploitation,” “Boogie Nights,” and “80s Dance...
...final scene of the “80s Dance” that brought the crowd’s loudest reaction. The set was kicked off by Senior Class Marshall Shaka J. Bahadu ’04, who expressed his affection for the women in the audience and the floor with classic Prince eroticism, while Hank Wilkins ’04 suffered for glory in sporting the tightest jeans a man has ever had to wear while performing to “I Would...
...like a college. You know the place where everyone says you have “the best four years of your life”? Harvard was that place. The campus had a pulse: concerts by Busta Rhymes and Kuumba, Eleganza and the Freshman Musical, an ’80s dance in Leverett and a Black Men’s Forum party in Dunster, and Springfest. As a college, we had fun; it was the kind of weekend that goads a giddy sense of school pride, and it happened here at Harvard...
...what was then Rhodesia. He praises the "quiet decency" of Botswana, which lies just southwest of Zimbabwe and which McCall Smith, whose day job is teaching medical law at the University of Edinburgh, got to know while helping set up the law school in Gaborone in the early '80s. "In Botswana, even in the small transactions of life, people pay attention to each other," he says...