Word: 80s
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Everett said Harvard administrators had frequently chastised band members for their program choices in the 1970s and 80s. After a 1983 football game in which the band joked about the deaths of Marines in Lebanon and the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight 007, then-Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III began requiring members to submit their scripts ahead of time for approval...
...fashion, they lose all sense of purpose: a glass-encased exhibit of S&M paraphernalia looks more like a human-rights group presentation of Syrian secret-police torture instruments from the '70s. The porn they do show - stag films from 1915 projected on a wall, videos of '70s and '80s porn stars - are recontextualized into some strange National Geographic special. Even the sober-looking museum guards aren't impressed. "It's calmer here," says Jasmine Pallet, 22, comparing MoSex with her previous workplace. "Yankee Stadium is wild...
Perhaps most interesting is the case of Mary Lou Schiavo ’76, who achieved further Glamour fame after taking home two more awards from the magazine. In the ’80s, Schiavo, then inspector general for the Department of Transportation, won Glamour’s “Working Woman” contest. Then, after writing a book, teaching aeronautical engineering and working for the California law firm Baum & Hedland, she took home one of Glamour’s “Woman of the Year” awards in 1997, a title recently shared...
Kulash’s eyes shift to the side as he responds; the last question was too leading and he’s not happy about it. Returning to safer territory, he speaks about the band’s association with the ’80s revival of recent months. “I’m fine with that. We’re not a very retro band. I don’t think we really sound like ’80s music. I think the thing is that rock that’s been on the radio...
...stage later that evening, Kulash’s words held true. The band delivered an orgiastic set of pure power-pop combustion, with the ’80s-based synth beats so abundant on the record kept to a minimum. They even broke from the rocking briefly to spotlight Tim’s unexpected proficiency at rapping. And at the end of each song, Kulash jumped in front of the mic, a broad grin splashed on his face, and yelled, “Thanks...