Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...execs might want to take a spin. Over the past decade, the company's North American unit has been hammered. Although last year VW of America increased sales 1.2%, to 137,885 cars, that's only a third of the metal VW of America moved in its mid-1960s heyday. The idea of reviving the Bug came after VW buffs went wild over a Beetle built for display at the Detroit auto show four years ago. The company did some market research and decided it might be able to win Americans back by rolling out a contemporary version (the engine...
...something that we are led to believe by yet another media hooey-machine, plugs directly into our generational needs. Curled up in jim-jams and sipping Sprites, we supposedly affixed our gradually dried out eyes to horror movie after horror movie in the '80s, the genre's heyday, as parades of Jasons and Michaels, Freddies and Pin-heads ran off those screens and ripped out our hearts. So what's better than a history book on film, something that let us flip through the cliches as through a photo album of a cinematic memories...
...suck away time) and gave the audience two tracks that went way back into the Cure's infancy. "10:15 Saturday Night" and "Killing and Arab" reached back to 1979 and ended a triumphant night for the Cure. Although the band's popularity has waned from their 80s heyday, the Cure proved that their musical prowess...
...since the heyday of devo (or, perhaps, MC Hammer) have the worlds of nerds and rock so converged. As rockers embrace the Net with fan pages and Web-simulcast concerts, the two cultures have intermingled. Can you tell which is the band and which is the provider of bandwidth? --By Joel Stein...
Artists in all media know that a touch of imperfection--a barely missed beat, Streisand's nose--can breathe life into a work. But perfectibility is the Promethean temptation of Hollywood's computer-graphics revolution, which is giving movies a glossy hyperreality unseen since the heyday of the studio system while distracting us from their essential soullessness. And if the computer's single greatest achievement to date has been the astonishingly life-like dinosaurs of the astonishingly lifeless Jurassic Park and The Lost World, creating digital humans of similar believability remains the industry's Holy Grail...