Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking of which, there were people at the convention who thought their puppets were alive, truly. Jeff Dunham, a rising star from Dallas who was in the touring company of the Broadway hit Sugar Babies, explained this frame of mind: "If you convince yourself that the dummy is really alive, that he is a separate entity, it works much better onstage. It is much more convincing to the audience. Even Bergen, who was far from crazy, talked about Charlie as if he were alive. However, it does get a little spooky sometimes if you let yourself get carried away with...
...youth rebellion, the fact that parents were shocked by drugs was all the more reason for children to take them. Hollywood and Broadway, ever sensitive to changing mores, romanticized the drug culture with pot-smoking antiheroes in Easy Rider (1969) and let-it-all-hang-out hippies in Hair (1968). "In the 1960s the baby boomers got fooled into thinking, just like the people in the 1890s, that you could use drugs recreationally and not get addicted to them," says the National Cocaine Hotline's Washton. "Marijuana had a meaning beyond just getting high. It was the source of shared...
...Arrow Collar Man, advertising heartthrob of the flapper era. The image of an elegant Manhattan clubman was created in 1905, when the company had its headquarters in Troy, N.Y., by Illustrator J.C. Leyendecker. The Arrow man was a cult icon in the 1920s and was featured in a 1923 Broadway musical, Helen of Troy, New York. Arrow retired the figure in 1931. Now, an '80s version of the man-about-town, painted by Leroy Neiman, is the star in the latest Arrow ad campaign. Says Vice President of Advertising Larry Weisberg: "The Arrow man gives us vitality...
...avant-garde work, but that was filled in 1983, when the La Jolla Playhouse opened on a suburban campus of the University of California at San Diego. Although the playhouse has staged musicals (including 1984's Big River, which went on to win seven Tony Awards on Broadway, and a 1985 reworking of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along overseen by the composer), most of its summerlong schedule consists of unfamiliar plays or eccentric looks at familiar ones. Against all odds, the company is becoming a financial as well as artistic success...
Lauren has a Broadway producer's flair for launching large fashion collections. Boldly and with apparent ease, he markets clothing lines that contain dozens of items linked by a single conceptual theme. He came by such ; skills the hard way: Lauren's first high-volume production, his launch of a splashy Western Wear collection in 1978, was plagued by mistakes. The designer and his manufacturers were several months late in delivering the extensive line of cavalry shirts, prairie skirts, cowboy boots and other products. The women's jeans, which Lauren tailored with his willowy wife in mind, were...