Word: 80s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Faced with shrinking revenue and investment, the Hong Kong film industry responded as threatened industries often do?it forgot how it became successful in the first place. Gone was the freewheeling spirit that fueled the creativity of the '80s and produced international icons like Jackie Chan. There were exceptions, but too many Hong Kong filmmakers began to churn out timid, formulaic comedies with the same old stars. Audiences flocked instead to the high-budget Hollywood event movies that are increasingly pitched at international audiences, and to films from Asian nations like South Korea, where young directors weaned on John...
...There are always students “studying” here, but for extra potential, head on up to the sixth floor to the LRC (Language Resource Center). If the ability to speak a foreign language isn’t enough, try wearing the super-cool ’80s style headphones. Potential pickup lines include “voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” and “Tu es muy caliente ay ay ay,” but we might need a little help with that pronunciation. Surely a freshman would know where to inflect...
...business community has not been immune. In the 1970s and '80s, amid the euphoria of Japan's economic miracle, Japanese business leaders were contemptuous of the dry (read: unsentimental), short-term (read: myopic) obsession with the bottom line that in their view characterized American corporations. In the past 10 years, that attitude has reversed. A Japanese executive recently told me, "Japanese business is trying frantically to adopt an American style of management, and the result is turmoil and confusion. As financial performance continues to drop, top management demands a management revolution?that is, a total denial of our traditional ways...
...company-is evidence of how hard Japan Inc. now finds it to pull off the double act that Morita once handled so well. To an extent, the troubles of corporate Japan are a function of a long period of economic stagnation. During the boom years of the 1970s and '80s, Japan Inc.'s single-minded focus on engineering and process development-not to mention a resistance to foreign ideas-were hallmarks of the country's rapid economic progress and a source of national pride. But when the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japan was gripped by a crisis...
...that 15 years after his last hit, Billy Idol is back on the scene? Credit the booming music nostalgia market, which has stirred up enough interest in the '80s to entice Morrissey, New Order, Duran Duran, Mtley Cre and others back into recording studios. But while those acts made their previous albums within the Napster era and had modest expectations for their comebacks, Idol, 49, has been inactive since 1993's disastrous Cyberpunk and believes that his new collection, Devil's Playground, out March 22, may restore his former glory. "I'm not a retro act," Idol says...