Word: 80s
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...hope they are lifelong friends,” he said. As wild nights in Mexico are replaced by pre-partying for the Leverett ’80s dance, Ingber said he will always reflect warmly on his unusual senior spring break. “In all honesty, they picked who we were and where we were. But as far as emotions and experiences and thoughts and reactions, those are all genuine. All real...
...totally unprecedented in what it will do for campus social life.” Publicity Chair Aditi A. Prabhu ’04 adds, “They are also hoping to create a tradition for people to rally around,” referencing the Leverett ’80s dance as an example...
...wander over their shoulders. To detractors, especially in the State Department and the CIA, he's an opportunist, a shameless self-promoter and an embezzler. He opened a bank in Jordan that grew into the country's second largest, then was expropriated by the Jordanian government in the late '80s amid charges of fraud. Chalabi was convicted in absentia by a Jordanian military court after friends, said to include Jordan's then Crown Prince Hassan, sped him out of the country. Chalabi has always maintained his innocence. Many State Department officials say Chalabi has been good at lobbying Congress...
...band and promoting concerts, he moved to Paris in 1975. One day he was watching an English-language TV show and realized the theme music might be popular on French radio. He could buy the foreign rights to such tunes for a pittance, he discovered, and by the early '80s, he was licensing entire shows, mostly for kids...
...cocaine. After a struggle, he put drugs aside. Concluding that he was tapped out for a while as a novelist, he, like Ray, shipped himself to Hollywood, where he made a fortune writing films like The Color of Money for Martin Scorsese and Sea of Love. By the late '80s he was ready again for novels. For Clockers he spent months hanging with cops and dealers in housing projects around Jersey City, N.J., which is where he learned things like how to use an eggbeater to work lactose powder into cocaine. Critics were awed by his combination of psychological nuance...