Word: 80s
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...plastered with thank-you letters penned by the apartheid era's superstars. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a regular visitor to Darling (he takes his wife there for their anniversary), writes: "We need you to continue to hold a mirror to our human condition." Alongside are affectionate faxes from the debonair '80s Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha, and photos of "the couple" going hunting. "During the '80s, I started a rumor that he and Evita were having an affair, and even he started believing it," says...
...only one, people might think we actually care about it, and God forbid that might happen.) Irony is the easiest way of doing something without fear of being judged. Irony is safe, and we like safe.Consider the Frat Pack comedies, which regularly spoon-feed ’80s rock songs to young moviegoers. “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” had Asia’s “Heat of the Moment,” “Old School” had Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again...
...Significantly, Japan refused to contribute to the aid unless progress is made on its core issue, the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s. While the Bush Administration publicly supports Japan's focus on abductions, it didn't escape notice in Tokyo that the issue took a clear backseat to denuclearization at the talks - and that the U.S. raised the possibility of removing North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states, something Japan vociferously opposes. "Japan felt betrayed," says Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor of international relations at Tokyo's Waseda University. If Washington...
...York’s Fashion Week is the Harvard of American runway shows: elite, innovative, and bound to produce the next big thing. Of course, Fashion Week is also graced with the presence of iconic ’80s model Fabio.Okay, fine. So maybe Fabio doesn’t attend your Core section, but in many ways, Fashion Week and the Harvard undergraduate community have a lot in common. We both exist in bubbles and set the benchmarks for our fields.New York City Fashion Week is a nine-day fashion binge featuring 221 designers, numerous celebrity sightings, and plenty...
Before she was a an adminstrator, Faust was a popular teacher. “The first vivid image I have of her was at a conference,” Hall reminiscences, “This would have been in the mid-80s...I just have an image of her standing at a cocktail party or reception and students gathering around her. A kind of love and respect that was just visible. You could...