Word: 80s
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Bruce Lee, Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Willis came along in the '70s and '80s. And there was that Monty Python sketch about drunk Australians named Bruce. Still, it wasn't what you'd call a butch name. A girl I once dated got teased by her friends...
...After the crappiest selection in decades at the Cannes Film Festival, I found a terrific season of London shows. One was actually about London: the musical "Our House." I hadn't hoped for much. Since it's a trunk show of songs from the 80s ska group Madness, and since it's about a young man who splits in two to see whether he'd turned out right if he went bad, the show could have been a mix of the amateur ABBA show "Mamma Mia" and London's longest-running bad musical, "Blood Brothers" (15 years and it hasn...
...place that people who don’t enjoy really cheesy, awful, mainstream techno music can go, and enjoy really unique takes on old-school 80s music and really unique genres of electronica,” said Julia C. Davidson ’05, who said ManRay is closer to the Harvard community than other dance clubs, almost all of which are in Boston. “There’s really interesting people—a whole different subculture really—that you don’t normally find in Boston...
...died in his professional prime. Well known during the 1920s, '30s and '40s, the golden age of Cuban son music, Segundo saw his traditional balladeering trail into obscurity, and he spent nearly two decades as a roller in the H. Upmann cigar factory in Havana. Then, in his late 80s, he formed the Buena Vista Social Club with a gaggle of other aging all-stars. The eponymous album and motion picture reintroduced much of the world to Cuban music and made the charismatic Segundo perhaps the most recognizable beardless Cuban alive. The gregarious nonagenarian reveled in his stardom: he played...
...first time I met Norman Lewis, the great intrepid traveler of our times was rubbing his hands together. He was already well into his 80s, but he was about to depart for a part of Irian Jaya where the last Western visitors-missionaries-had, he said, been eaten. "I can't wait to go and hear more about that great evangelical feast," he said, mixing, as he often did, drollness with real spirit...