Word: 80s
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THERE WAS A TIME when a pizza pie was simple: red (marinara), white (mozzarella) and round. As the first pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's '80s hot spot Spago and later the architect of the menu for the national chain California Pizza Kitchen, Ed LaDou was pivotal in elevating the dish to gourmet status. A cult figure to celebrities--who flocked to the Los Angeles Spago for his latest creations--LaDou topped his pies with such unconventional ingredients as duck sausage, smoked salmon, hoisin sauce and barbecued chicken, his signature. The culinary mission? To expose diners to what he called...
...million (making him the wealthiest among the presidential candidates). Lee grew up in a poor family in the east coast town of Pohang, became a senior executive at the conglomerate Hyundai at age 36 and played a role in the nation's rapid economic development in the 1970s and '80s. As mayor of Seoul from 2002 to 2006, Lee won praise for his management of the city, putting an end to recurring subway strikes and creating a new green space in the center of town by uncovering a formerly paved-over river. But he has also had to apologize...
...years? -Ben Rush, Lincoln, Neb.If you are in a band, it hasn't changed at all. In the end, the music industry is still musicians playing music. If it has changed in any way, it is that nobody who really cares about music is running the industry. In the '80s, accountants ended up running it, and they still are. The record industry has fallen apart. But we are on to the new age, a digital one, where anyone can download. Radiohead-how great! How much do you want to pay? That's a huge change. God bless them...
...narrator; his babymakin’ music was frequently campy, but it never felt forced and was heartfelt even when it wasn’t profound. The-Dream’s loverman persona is as plastic as his production. Car/sex metaphors were tired even in the early ’80s, but Prince had the talent to make it work. The-Dream simply doesn’t. —Reviewer Jake G. Cohen can be reached at jgcohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...tries to make it to all her teammates’ performances and shows. Not on Thursday nights though—she’s the self-styled “Stein Club President” of Leverett House, working to improve this house-life staple, while helping with the 80s Dance as well. Her post-graduation plans are not finalized, but she doesn’t want to step off the court just yet. This might mean leaving America for the leagues of Europe, but she can’t start looking until she’s done with Harvard...