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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston, the Burger King fast-food chain, which employs 160,000 people nationwide, took the unusual step of advertising jobs on MTV, the cable rock-music channel, to attract young prospective workers into its management program. In the throes of a rapid expansion, Burger King felt a strong need to try new avenues that might help ease its worker shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Maddening Labor Mismatch | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner, Singer Melissa Manchester and Satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic. The first Bao Wow in Beverly Hills was a dog with the dinner trade and closed after a year; the second, in Encino, is a noon and nighttime hit, prompting dreams of a nationwide chain. The Hard Rock Cafe, which offers young Manhattanites an eclectic menu topped with a hefty dollop of rock-'n'-roll memorabilia that includes Elvis Presley's boots, is already spreading. Co-Owner Dan Aykroyd last week presided over groundbreaking for a Dallas outpost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...this score, Absolute Beginners is a pretty little cheat. It promises a larkish tour of London in 1958, the year Britain discovered both rock 'n' roll as an anarchic force and teenagers as a voracious new consumer class. Colin (Eddie O'Connell) is a bright lad who hits the Top 40 of success snapping pictures of mods and trads; Suzette (Patsy Kensit) is a proto-Twiggy fashion model- designer. Sade, Ray Davies and the snakily elegant David Bowie appear in elaborate production numbers--upmarket rock videos, really--and Julien Temple, a master director of the short music form, revs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sore Glums Absolute Beginners | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...losses dropped Harvard's record to 12-3. Five of those victories, however, came against MIT--a weaker team which probably won't play in the upcoming Harvard-hosted National tournament. Stronger squads--like Slippery Rock--will participate, making this weekend's tournament excellent preparation for Nationals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sportswrap | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Audiophiles have long complained about the poor quality of TV sound. Lush movie scores, rock concerts and opera performances hardly sound their best when squeezed through a 3-in. TV speaker. But all that is changing with the advent of stereo TV. An estimated 2.8 million stereo TV sets are expected to be sold in 1986, double the number last year. Meanwhile, the IN STEREO logo is ) cropping up on more and more network programs, just as the familiar IN LIVING COLOR advisory did back in the early 1960s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Breaking the Sound Barrier | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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