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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, compared with $96 last year. At the famous Las Hadas resort, where the movie "10"was filmed, a couple can spend a week lolling on the beach or practicing their skiing for less than $500. The same outing a year ago would have cost Dudley Moore and Bo Derek more than twice as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World at Cut Rates | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...Sound. "New Orleans music is Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Cuban and Mardi Gras Indian. Combine that with natural street rhythms like Bo Diddley or the hambone little spasm bands that play boxes and garbage-can covers in the streets and you have a piece of the thing. Add parade drums to that and you have a little more. The Mardi Gras Indians incorporated all this rhythmically. On Mardi Gras day the Indians would wear costumes-a lot of feathers-and come out in the morning to greet the sunrise and all move toward the center of the city. As they went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Consultations with the Doctor | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

After a maiden British tour with Bo Diddley, the Stones released their first album in 1964. It countered the early Beatles' cheerful harmonies with a rough-edged interpretation of what Jagger. Richards and Jones imagined America sounded like. Dominated by covers of American hits. The Rolling Stones, prepared critics and fans for the Stones first big single, "Not Fade Away," an aging Buddy Holly rattler which Richards souped up Chicago style...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Rockin' The U.S.A. | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

...quarter-mile-long pit that will soon be World's Fair Lake. The fair's signature structure: the Sunsphere, a steel shaft housing two restaurants, which with its gilded-globe top looks like the world's only 266-ft. microphone. Says Fair President S.H. ("Bo") Roberts: "This is going to be a bench mark. We will think of Knoxville before and Knoxville after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barn Burner in a Backwater | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...first show opens with a Playboy interview: John Derek and Bo Derek atop a California hill that is only slightly less windswept than the Dereks' conversation. After a promo by Playmate Tweed en deshabille and a parody commercial, the program rips through a "Ribald Classic," stages a centerfold photo session on Shannon and tosses in a humorous feature on Andy Kaufman, male chauvinist champ presumptive, wrestling Playmate Susan Smith to the mat in a "primal battle of the sexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Bunnies on the Home Tube | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

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