Word: 80s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate" as long as they don't cause "substantial disruption" at school. Courts gave students even more rights over the next decade, but the rise of drugs and alcohol on campus made judges increasingly sympathetic to schools. In the '80s, the Supreme Court cut back the rights granted in Tinker, telling schools they could limit student speech that was "vulgar and offensive" or "sponsored" by the school in, for example, a student newspaper...
...Alvin Batiste slipped away from his family to follow a group of musicians on a parade route--a fitting start for a founder of New Orleans' modern-jazz scene. A versatile clarinetist-composer for greats from Ray Charles to Cannonball Adderley, Batiste drew national attention in the '80s as a member of the innovative band Clarinet Summit. The bebop master died of an apparent heart attack hours before he was to perform alongside Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick...
...idea for superhero trilogies to follow the formula set down in the Superman films of the late 70s and early 80s. First movie: the hero discovers his secret powers. Second movie: he shares he secret with his girlfriend. The third movie is about how it's not so super being a hero. Success, that cruel muse, threatens to transform him into a corrupt cartoon of his earlier, purer self. Recall that, in Superman III, a blend of kryptonite and tobacco tar split the Man of Steel in half, into good Supe and bad Supe. Christ battles antichrist, and they...
...bawdy play unfolds with Mirabell trying to balance this sticky situation, and it quickly erupts into deceit, trickery, and very tangled interpersonal webs. Meanwhile the audience sees the characters become literally stained and tainted through visual direction from Birnbaum. But why use the ’80s as a frame for a play from the 18th century? “It’s apolitical, and amoral,” says Benjamin M. Poppel ’09, one of the two executive producers. “It’s about people manipulating the situation and looking...
Eons ago—way back in the ’80s and ’90s—a band called Dinosaur Jr. roamed the earth. It was the master of its domain, known primarily for the ferocious noise it produced and grunge, the movement it helped spark. Yet in a move right out of “Jurassic Park,” Dinosaur Jr. has been revived ten years after the band’s last album with its original lineup. And just like that movie’s earthshaking, jeep-terrorizing T-rex, their new album...