Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Burn an American flag? The patriotic mind recoils. Reverence for the flag is ingrained in every schoolchild who has quailed at the thought of letting it touch the ground, in every citizen moved by pictures of it being raised at Iwo Jima or planted on the moon, in every veteran who has ever heard taps played at the end of a Memorial Day parade, in every gold-star mother who treasures a neatly folded emblem of her family's supreme sacrifice...
Twenty summers ago, millions of Americans heard the words "the Eagle has landed" as astronaut Neil Armstrong prepared to take man's first steps on the moon. During the next three weeks, 174 local TV stations in the U.S. will broadcast Man in Space, a one-hour video history of space exploration. Produced by TIME Magazine Television and California-based GGP, the program will feature footage from the archives of NASA, U.P.I. and other sources. The show will also include interviews with U.S. and Soviet space pioneers, who now dream of the next goal: manned exploration of Mars...
...names of celebs who huddled around a garbage-filled storm drain at a rally for Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica, Calif., group, read like a short list for the 25 most intriguing people: thirtysomething people (Ken Olin, Patricia Wettig), sitcom people (Justine Bateman, John Ritter), people named Moon and Dweezil Zappa. A sludge protest drew Dynasty's Linda Evans to Olympic, Wash. More recently, Dennis Weaver, Michael Landon and Robert Downey Jr. voiced their protest against offshore oil drilling at a rally in downtown L.A. And last weekend a gross of glitterati -- Diana Ross, Elton John, Sigourney Weaver -- joined...
...Anne L. Moon...
...announced in a televised speech that "we must end the turmoil swiftly" and ordered troops into the city. While Li's raspy voice echoed from Tiananmen Square's loudspeakers, sirens wailed and blue lights flashed as an ambulance arrived to take away yet another weakened hunger striker. A full moon, shrouded in mist, gleamed above the Great Hall of the People. Some slept, some talked, and all waited for what the new day would bring...