Word: 80s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There's no such thing as a bad style phase because when you adopt a certain look, you truly believe it's stylish. In hindsight, the '80s had some awkward moments, but then again, there were some real statements made.' ?Viktor Horsting, on style statements...
...drawing encouragement from each other. There's also a sense that Tibet is fast losing the culture many Tibetans are so desperate to preserve, and that the prospects for compromise are receding. "The crucial factor is the age of the Dalai Lama," says Sangay. "Unlike the ?50s and ?80s, Tibetan people inside and outside are very well informed of events and what's happening around the world through radio and Internet, and they know that, for an agreement to be implemented effectively, time is a factor. Implementing an agreement, this only the Dalai Lama can do. And the Dalai Lama...
...then in Russia, the beefy Vitaly Fedorchuk was known as a thug. Thought to be behind kidnappings and murders as the "Butcher of Ukraine," he later persecuted Russians who had too much contact with foreigners before finally becoming highly visible as the Soviet Union's top cop in the '80s. His efforts at first seemed to foreshadow perestroika-like reforms: he exposed official corruption and condemned drunkenness. But Western analysts called his heavy-handed tactics "neo-Stalinist." In the late '80s Mikhail Gorbachev sidelined him. Fedorchuk...
...little like OutKast’s video for “Hey Ya”). “Run” features some pretty normal and—dare I say it—wholesome dancing and singing in its first half, complete with colorful 80s attire. If you’re prone to siezures, though, you shouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security. As soon as you see the rapper’s eyes go all spiral-like and the dancers’ colorful clothes turn to black and white (which is a very...
...Part of it was being not just the brilliant son of a multimillionaire - someone who surely sensed entitlement from an early age - but the son of a particular multimillionaire, Bernard Spitzer. Bernard (who is in his 80s and suffering from Parkinson's) was a fierce, demanding parent. He once reduced Eliot to tears during a game of Monopoly. Bernard, a real estate developer, had ordered his son - at the time a boy of 7 or 8 - to sell him a piece of property; Eliot then couldn't afford the rent when a roll of the dice landed him on that...