Word: hula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade and moved away to the sanctuary of the suburbs. Nonetheless, the surges of prismatic energy in the clothes they make and wear have little relation to the settled design ideas of Seventh Avenue. Some garments, like an outfit by Eva Goodman that resembles a series of sewn-together Hula Hoops sprayed with an Earl Scheib paint job, press hard on the outer edge, looking for the place where far-out goes...
Jennings and Koppel put events into the context of U.S. cultural history by referring to collage boxes filled with such props as Hula-Hoops and the Star Wars robot Artoo-Detoo. Since the program concentrates on the U.S., it tends to highlight American mistakes and triumphs rather than those of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the cold war themes are handled with sophistication and balance. ABC's 40-year journey offers fresh, sometimes offbeat details about many of the terrain's landmarks and a knowing sense of how they shaped the modern world...
...show's much vaunted stylistic breakthroughs can be overrated. Flashy visuals and rock music on the soundtrack were hardly invented by Miami Vice--or by MTV, for that matter. They have been staples of artfully directed feature films for a couple of decades. "We haven't invented the Hula Hoop or anything," admitted Michael Mann, the show's executive producer and stylistic guru, in an interview with Rolling Stone. "We're only contemporary. And if we're different from the rest of TV, it's because the rest of TV isn't even contemporary...
...today, it's hard to picture a kid walking into Brine's and asking for a jersey with Lynn Dickey's number on it. Dickey's never even been to a Hula Bowl, much less a Super Bowl...
...just how dramatically the political tide in Quebec has turned: after 25 years of mounting autonomist fervor, the urge to unmerge is subsiding. "On the scale of things outdated," wrote Lawrence Martin, a Montreal-based columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail, "separatism finishes only slightly ahead of the Hula-Hoop...