Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bernard Shaw once remarked, are two nations separated by a common language. Today he might say much the same thing about the U.S. and the whole world. ICE CUBOS, says a sign in the Mexican resort of Acapulco. Lebanese audiences watching Rambo shout exhortations in English, and a Japanese rock-'n'-roll hit begins, "Let's dancin' people/ Hoshi-kuzu nagarete feel so good...
...show biz. Words such as network, rock, video, new wave, hit parade, album all turn up in Swedish or, for that matter, Arabic. Show biz helps introduce the language of romance: sexy, playboy and, eventually, baby sitter. In Japan, the English names for sexual organs are considered more polite than the Japanese terms, and pink is now the Japanese word for all erotic entertainment...
...smoothed over and sold on Seventh Avenue, but the real inspiration comes from all over the country: from what teenagers wear to cruise Revere Beach outside Boston or the Galleria mall in the San Fernando Valley; from the work clothes of soldiers and astronauts; from the wardrobe tricks of rock stars and artists at gallery openings. Much of what is best in American fashion--and almost all of what has had an impact--is not identifiable by designer. It comes from attitude as much as from a closet, and no one, not even Ralph Lauren, has ever figured...
...stunt. Keened the trainer: "There's only so much you can teach a duck.") At Sea World the dolphins do backflips in sync; a walrus sprays his audience on cue; seals eat fish dangled by children; there are even a few humans doing water-ski daredeviltry to pre-Beatles rock in the Beach Blanket Ski Party show. As at Disney World, Sea World works hard to elicit one of two reactions from its visitors: awe ("Isn't that amazing!") and awwww ("Isn't that cute!"). Because Sea World's stars are live animals and not electronic humanoids, the reactions...
...rise above the reactor building. Many stories strained to find positive details to hearten readers. Pravda, for example, cited evidence that life continued in the wake of the accident: "The nightingale concert over Pripyat goes on both night and day." Yet, in a demonstration of disdain for Western-style rock, Soviet officials did not publicly announce last week's concert for the evacuated residents of the Chernobyl area. Muscovites learned of the benefit by word of mouth or from a smattering of street posters...